17 Bible Verses about games
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Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
And if a man also competes as an athlete, yet is he not crowned, unless he strives lawfully.
Now therefore take, I pray you, your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.
The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the possessions of a diligent man are precious.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing did they cast lots.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Games » Foot races
Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the gain to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the gain to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
