3 Bible Verses about Manliness

And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as one uncertain; I so fight, not as one striking the air; but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

Brethren, do not become children in understanding; yet in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

Endure hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier. And if a man contendeth in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contendeth lawfully.