Bible Verses about “sportsmanship”
The Bible contains 19 verses about sportsmanship 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.”
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”
“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.”
“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,”
“But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.”
“Do all things without murmurings and disputes,”
“Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.”
“Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.”
“Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;”
“It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.”
“lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.”
“Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.”