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 you were 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, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
“But 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.”
“Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”