Bible Verses about โathleteโ
The Bible contains 21 verses about athlete across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.โ
โFor men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,โ
โholding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.โ
โBut know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.โ
โtraitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;โ
โwithout natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,โ
โWhatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.โ
โDon't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.โ
โI have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.โ
โIron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.โ
โBut refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.โ
โalways learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.โ
โHe gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.โ
โFor some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,โ
โEven as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.โ
โBut they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.โ
โEven the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;โ
โAlso, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.โ
โFight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.โ
โHe alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.โ
โThrough God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.โ
