Bible Verses About Games
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for games, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,192 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Games
1 Corinthians 9:24-27233 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
2 Timothy 2:5229 votes
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Hebrews 12:1-2158 votes
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,
1 Timothy 4:8157 votes
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.
Psalms 119:37138 votes
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Psalms 11:5113 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Philippians 3:14105 votes
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Psalms 101:3103 votes
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Zechariah 8:599 votes
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
1 Corinthians 6:1291 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 13:1184 votes
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.
Proverbs 31:1778 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
2 Timothy 2:2269 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:2268 votes
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
2 Timothy 4:768 votes
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Ecclesiastes 9:1167 votes
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Philippians 4:864 votes
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:1363 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Colossians 3:23-2463 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Matthew 11:16-1760 votes
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Ecclesiastes 5:18-2059 votes
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 3:457 votes
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Hebrews 12:157 votes
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,
Psalms 90:1255 votes
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
1 Corinthians 10:2351 votes
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
What does the Bible say about games?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 on the subject of games. Across 4,192 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 12:1-2, 1 Timothy 4:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.