11 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty. But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish. That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.
Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."
I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.
And the soldiers also made sport of Him, coming and offering Him sour wine and saying,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?
holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.
with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.
holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.
Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.
I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.
That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.
I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.
That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.
holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
