Thematic Bible: Rebuked by paul

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as, "You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch," which refer to things that perish in the using, in accordance with human rules and teachings? read more.
Such practices have the outward expression of wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, their torturings of the body, but they are of no value; they really satisfy the lower nature.

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of false teachers, men with seared consciences, who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth. read more.
For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future. Verse ConceptsAthletesBeautifuleternal life, experience ofBodyLeisure, And PastimesMedicinePresent, TheProfitsCare For Your BodySelf DisciplineValuesProfitable ThingsThe Present AgeThe Future AgeProvision For The BodyPeople TeachingUseful ThingsPromise Of HeavenUniversalismPromises respectingWorthExerciseTaking Care Of Your BodyValueWorrying About The FutureRespecting Your Bodytrainingfitnesspracticemusclesoverworkingpietyperfectionism