Bible Verses about “physical fitness”
The Bible contains 19 verses about physical fitness 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.”
“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.”
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”
“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.”
“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,”
“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”
“Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;”
“and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;”
“Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,”