10 Bible Verses about Athletes

And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown. I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air; but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it. Wherefore, lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned aside; but rather let it be restored to health.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:

But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me.