11 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize. Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.
I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.
The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.
to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.
hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.
Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,
Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!
I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.
Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!
Games » Gladiatorial
What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!
I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.
Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.
hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
