11 Bible Verses about games
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Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
And if any one contend in the public games, he gains not the crown unless he contend fairly.
Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."
I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside childish things.
And the soldiers too insulted Him, coming to Him and offering Him vinegar, saying,
And after they had fixed Him to the cross, they parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,
Games » Foot races
Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,
I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---
I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith.
I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---
I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith.
I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
