14 Bible Verses about football

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.

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

And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

You must not eat from their meat, and you must not touch their dead body--they are unclean for you.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This [is] Jerusalem in the midst of the nations [where] I have put her, and countries [are] around her.

But he turned around [and] rebuked them,

But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

And he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and look, [at] the doorway of the temple of Yahweh, between the portico and the altar, [there were] about twenty-five men [with] their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they [were] bowing down toward the east before the sun.

However, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who names the name of the Lord must abstain from unrighteousness."

In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

"Yahweh shall cause you to be defeated {before} your enemies; on one road you shall go {against} them, but you will flee on seven roads {before} them, and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth.

Then those who revered Yahweh spoke {with one another}. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written {before him} of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name.

So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind!