13 Bible Verses about Athletes
Most Relevant Verses
If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.
Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown. I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air. But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.
Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.
Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.
What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own. You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.
Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained. Lift up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees. Make straight paths for your feet. Let that which is lame be turned out of the way, but rather let it be healed.
I have fought the good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith!
He gives strength to those who grow tired and increases the strength of those who are weak.
It comes out of its chamber like a bridegroom. Like a champion, it is eager to run its course.
Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained.
I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
