11 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize. Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers. So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.
No contestant in the games is crowned, unless he competes according to the rules.
Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.
For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?
The soldiers also made sport of Him as they continued to come up and offer Him vinegar,
Then they crucified Him and divided among them His clothes by drawing lots,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
You were running beautifully! Who was it that cut into your way and kept you from obeying the truth?
to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.
I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.
Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose.
to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.
Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,
So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."
I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.
So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.
Games » Gladiatorial
If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."
I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.
So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.
God is entirely trustworthy, and it is He through whom you have been called into this fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose.
to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.
