Bible Verses about “sports”

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.”

“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

“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.”

“¶ 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:”

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

“‹And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.›”

“¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”

“¶ The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head.”

“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

“Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.”

“Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)”

“And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”

“Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.”

“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.”

“The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”

“¶ [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.”

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:”

“Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

“And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life.”

“¶ Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”

“(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:”

“Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.”

“¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.”

“And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.”

“And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”

“And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.”

“And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

“¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.”

“And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”

“And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.”

“¶ Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.”

“I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.”