35 Bible Verses about Sports
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After Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech looked out a window and saw Isaac intimately laughing and caressing Rebekah.
If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.
So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.
Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown.
The building was crowded with men and women. All five Philistine kings were there. There were about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching Samson entertain them.
They forced him to stand between the columns. When the people saw him, they sang praise to their god: Our god gave us victory over our enemy, who devastated our land and killed so many of us!
With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit?
Ships sail on it, and Leviathan (great sea animal), which you made, plays in it.
Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was laughing in mockery.
Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
When you mock the poor you disgrace your Maker. He who is glad at calamity will be punished.
he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
I will not join in their secret talks. I will not take part in their meetings. They killed people in anger. They crippled bulls for sport.
Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you are taught to do wrong?
Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.
Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.
Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.
He turned and rebuked them.
All the people of Judah took Uzziah and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
(The Shulamite) I went down into the garden of nut trees to see the fruits of the valley, to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
He dedicated his life to serving God in the days of Zechariah. Zechariah taught him to respect God. As long as he dedicated his life to serve God, Jehovah gave him success.
Uzziah prepared shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and stones for slings for the entire army.
In Jerusalem he manufactured machines designed by inventive people. The machines were placed on the towers and corners to shoot arrows and hurl large stones. Uzziah's fame spread far and wide because he had strong support until he became powerful.
God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
God helped him when he attacked the Philistines, the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.
Uzziah strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem. He built towers at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and where the wall turned.
He did what Jehovah considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.
About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Which (translated) means: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
