35 Bible Verses about Sports

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.

And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.

who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,

There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.

"You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, 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 rose up to play."

But he turned and rebuked them.

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

In Jerusalem he made engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.

Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

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