11 Bible Verses about games
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You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain. every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air.
You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.
be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:
when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.
the soldiers too, who came to bring him vinegar, insulted him,
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Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.
you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain.
I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.
Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:
Games » Foot races
You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.
and I went up according to revelation, and communicated to them that gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those who were of note, lest the pains, that I have already taken, or may hereafter take in the gospel, should be in vain.
you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain.
Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:
for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death. for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:
for he, who has called you to the communication of his son Jesus Christ our Lord, will make good his promise.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
and I went up according to revelation, and communicated to them that gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those who were of note, lest the pains, that I have already taken, or may hereafter take in the gospel, should be in vain.
you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain.
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1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air.