Bible Verses about “athletes”
The Bible contains 9 verses about athletes across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“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.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”