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 spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.”
“She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.”
“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.”
“Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
“Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
“The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."”
“Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.”
“I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.”
“Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.”
“Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.”