17 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one]. Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
So now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt food for me.
Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
and not become idolaters, as some of them [did], just as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play,"
And Isaac loved Esau because {he could eat of his game}, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
'Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat [it] and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
The lazy will not roast his game, but diligence is the precious wealth of a man.
I have fought the good fight, I have completed the race, I have kept the faith.
Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.
And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'
For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
And [when they] had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves [by] casting lots.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,
Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
I have fought the good fight, I have completed the race, I have kept the faith.
Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.
Games » Gladiatorial
If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
I have fought the good fight, I have completed the race, I have kept the faith.
Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
God [is] faithful, by whom you were called to fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.
