Nave’s Topical Bible
Games
19 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Foot races
1 Corinthians 9:24,26; Galatians 2:2; Philippians 2:16; Hebrews 12:1
- Gladiatorial
1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 9:26; 1 Corinthians 15:32; 2 Timothy 4:7
- FIGURATIVE
- Of the Christian life
1 Corinthians 9:24,26; Galatians 5:7; Philippians 2:16; Philippians 3:14; Hebrews 12:1
- Of a successful ministry
- Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 9:26; 1 Corinthians 15:32; 2 Timothy 4:7
- Of the Christian life
Bible verses about “Games”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
- 1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
- Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
- Philippians 2:16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
- Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
- 1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 15:32If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
- 2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
- Galatians 5:7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
- Philippians 3:14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.