3 Bible Verses about Manliness

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air; but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier. And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.