Bible Verses about “physical fitness”
The Bible contains 19 verses about physical fitness 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.”
“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.”
“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“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.”
“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:”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;”
“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”
“Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;”