11 Bible Verses about games
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Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain. And every one who strives in the games exercises self restraint in all things; they, indeed, therefore, to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
And, if also one contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul?
And the soldiers also were mocking Him, coming near, and offering Him vinegar,
And, having crucified Him, they divided His garments among them, casting lots;
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth,
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;
Games » Foot races
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;
I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
God is faithful, through Whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
