17 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize. Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown. I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.
If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.
Please take your hunting equipment, your quiver and bow, and go out into the open country and hunt some wild game for me.
Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.
Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.
Isaac preferred Esau. This is because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed. Rebecca preferred Jacob.
He said: 'Bring me some wild game, and prepare a good-tasting meal for me to eat. Then I will bless you in the presence of Jehovah before I die.'
The lazy man does not cook what he took in hunting. The substance of a diligent man is precious.
I have fought the good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith!
Treasures of wickedness (the morally wrong) profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.
The soldiers mocked him and offered him vinegar,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.
Hold fast to the word of life so I may rejoice in the day of Christ. That way I will not have labored in vain.
I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.
I went in response to a revelation. I demonstrated to them the way I spread the good news among the people of the nations. I did this privately before them for they have a reputation. I am concerned that by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
Hold fast to the word of life so I may rejoice in the day of Christ. That way I will not have labored in vain.
A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
I have fought the good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith!
I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.
For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
I have fought the good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith!
I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.
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 in response to a revelation. I demonstrated to them the way I spread the good news among the people of the nations. I did this privately before them for they have a reputation. I am concerned that by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
Hold fast to the word of life so I may rejoice in the day of Christ. That way I will not have labored in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.
