11 Bible Verses about games
Most Relevant Verses
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain. And every one who strives in the games exercises self restraint in all things; they, indeed, therefore, to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
And, if also one contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;
And the soldiers also were mocking Him, coming near, and offering Him vinegar,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;
Games » Foot races
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
God is faithful, through Whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.
