Bible Verses about “physical exercise”
The Bible contains 20 verses about physical exercise across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”
“But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
“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.”
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
“She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
“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.”
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:”
“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:”
“He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.”
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:”
“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding.”
“A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.”