17 Bible Verses about games
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Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Games » Foot races
Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "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.
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "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.
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
