13 Bible Verses about Athletes

And also if any contend for a prize, he is not crowned, except he contend for a prize lawfully.

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it. Wherefore set upright the relaxed hands, and palsied knees; And make straight wheel-ruts to your feet, lest the lame thing turned aside; and it should rather be healed.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:

He gave power to the faint; and to the not strong he will increase strength.

And he as a bridegroom coming forth from his nuptial couch, will rejoice as a strong one to run a way.

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.

He will not delight in the strength of the horse: he will not be pleased in the legs of a man.

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.