10 Bible Verses about Athletes

And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air; but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.

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

And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it. Wherefore hold up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight courses for your feet, that the lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed.

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

And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.

I endure all things with him that strengthens me.