What Does the Bible Say About Poker Playing?

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Zechariah 8:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.

Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Proverbs 23:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

Romans 14:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 12:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

John 15:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Luke 12:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Proverbs 23:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!

Romans 14:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Romans 1:29-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh

Proverbs 28:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 23:4-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 21:6-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death. The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just. The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright. It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes. ...

Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.

Proverbs 13:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

2 Samuel 24:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:41 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.

Jeremiah 2:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.

Psalm 68:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:

1 Chronicles 15:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.

1 Samuel 16:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.”

Leviticus 21:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Proverbs 16:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.

Revelation 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Luke 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

Proverbs 28:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Revelation 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Proverbs 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

62 Bible Verses about Poker Playing

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 20:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 8:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 12:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 14:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:29-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Samuel 24:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ezekiel 16:41 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 2:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 68:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 15:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 16:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 21:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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