13 Bible Verses about Athletes

And also if anyone competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air. But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own, for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it. Because of this, straighten up the hands which hang down and the enfeebled knees. And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

He gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength.

and he comes forth as a bridegroom from his canopy; he rejoices as a strong man to run a race,

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

He delights not in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.