Bible Verses about “games”
The Bible contains 17 verses about games across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“¶ Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
“¶ Wherefore 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,”
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
“And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.”
“The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.”
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.”
“And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”
“¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.”