16 Bible Verses about Athletics

But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

but I went up according to revelation; and I presented to them the gospel which I am preaching among the Gentiles, but privately to the prominent ones, lest perhaps I am running, or did run, in vain.

You were running well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?

having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;

No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander. But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it. But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:read more.
but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it; but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.

I am coming quickly: hold fast that which you have, that no one may take your crown.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: finally there is a crown of righteousness laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day: not only to me, but to all those who with divine love, do love his appearing.

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

and chief Shepherd having appeared, you shall receive a crown of glory which will never fade away.

Fear not those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.