9 Bible Verses about Sports

Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

that he might present the church to himself in all her glory, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and blameless.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days, with scoffing, following their own lusts

By this you know the Spirit of God: every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play."

But he turned and rebuked them,

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"