11 Bible Verses about games
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Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading. I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.
No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless he has kept the rules.
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.'
I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.
When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.
When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among them by casting lots.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the Truth?
Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.
I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.
Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
Games » Foot races
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.
Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.
Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!
I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.
I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.
For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!
Games » Gladiatorial
If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!
I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.
I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.
God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.
Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.
