17 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
And now please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. But Rebekah loved Jacob.
Bring me game, and make me delicious things so that I may eat and bless you before Jehovah before my death.
The lazy one does not start after his game, but the wealth of a hard worker is precious.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.
And coming near, the soldiers also mocked Him, and offering Him sour wine,
And they crucified Him, dividing His garments, casting a lot; so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, "They parted My garments among them, and they cast a lot for My clothing."
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.
holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.
Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.
holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
