Bible Verses about “athletics”
The Bible contains 10 verses about athletics across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.”
“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.”
“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”
“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.”
“Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”
“Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.”