Bible Verses about “physical exercise”
The Bible contains 20 verses about physical exercise across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were 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, who strengthens me.”
“Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.”
“Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;”
“but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.”
“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.”
“Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
“She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.”
“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.”
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.”
“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.”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.”
“Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;”
“Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.”
“A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;”