14 Bible Verses about football

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;

But He said to him, “A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;

Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments,

“The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who esteem His name.

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.