Bible Verses About Gladiators And The Arena

If 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.

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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

New Testament athletic metaphor

And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

Athlete metaphor for rules and discipline

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

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For 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.

Apostles as a spectacle to the world

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

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Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

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Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

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A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

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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.

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And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

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By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

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Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

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The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

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And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

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And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

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The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

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Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

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The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

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And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

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