13 Bible Verses about Athletes

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield. Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up; and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased.

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;