3 Bible Verses about Manliness

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown. I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air; but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.

Do you, there fore, suffer evil, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier. And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.