3 Bible Verses about Manliness

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

Suffer affliction, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander. But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.