17 Bible Verses about games
Most Relevant Verses
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.
Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."
'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.'
Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
