Here are 6 Bible verses about playing, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.
Zechariah 8:5 KJV
5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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Exodus 32:6 KJV
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
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1 Corinthians 10:7 KJV
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
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Proverbs 22:6-9 KJV
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. 9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
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Galatians 4:3 KJV
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
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1 Corinthians 13:11-13 KJV
11 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. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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