11 Bible Verses about games
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Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain. And every one that contendeth, is temperate in all things: and they indeed, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, 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 course, I have kept the faith;
When I was a child, I talked as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
And they crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.
Ye did run well: who hath hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?
Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily besetteth us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith;
Games » Foot races
Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.
I went up by revelation, and explained to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but severally to those of eminence, lest by any means I should run, or should have run in vain.
Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily besetteth us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith;
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? 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 therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
For I think God hath set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? 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 therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went up by revelation, and explained to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but severally to those of eminence, lest by any means I should run, or should have run in vain.
Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
