10 Bible Verses about Athletes

But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.

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: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

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.

For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own; for you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify God in your body.

Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it. Therefore hold up the hands which hang down, and the paralyzed knees, and make straight paths for your feet, in order that whatsoever is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather may it be healed.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by 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.

I can do all things through him who fills me up with dynamite.