3 Bible Verses about Manliness

And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air: but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.

Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.

Thou therefore endure hardships, as a brave soldier of Jesus Christ. No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him. And if a man contend in the public games, he is not crowned victor, unless he contend according to the laws.