17 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward. And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown. So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.
So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.
Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.
Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.
And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.
And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine
And when they had put him on the cross, they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
