11 Bible Verses about games
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Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
Neither be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written; The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man I put away childish things.
And the soldiers also mocked him, and came and presented him vinegar,
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Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,
Games » Foot races
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.
and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.
holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.
holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
