11 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it. But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:
Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.
Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them were; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and arose up to play.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
When I was an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant.
And the soldiers were also mocking, coming and bringing the vinegar to Him,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.
having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.
but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.
but I went up according to revelation; and I presented to them the gospel which I am preaching among the Gentiles, but privately to the prominent ones, lest perhaps I am running, or did run, in vain.
having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.
Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If after the manner of men I have fought with the wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If after the manner of men I have fought with the wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
God is faithful, through whom you have been called unto the fellowship of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
but I went up according to revelation; and I presented to them the gospel which I am preaching among the Gentiles, but privately to the prominent ones, lest perhaps I am running, or did run, in vain.
having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:
