35 Bible Verses about Sports
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And when he had been there a long time, it happened that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through the window, and saw; and behold! Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.
And also if anyone competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.
that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.
And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Now the house was full of men and women. And all the lords of the Philistines were there. And on the roof were about three thousand men and women who watched while Samson made sport.
And when their hearts were merry, it happened that they said, Call for Samson and he will make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison house. And he made sport for them, and they set him between the pillars.
Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a lying seed,
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian (whom she had borne to Abraham) mocking.
First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts
Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker; he who is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull.
You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.
But let judgment roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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 becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.
Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
But He turned and rebuked them and said, You do not know of what spirit you are.
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, and he was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah's place.
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the greenery of the valley, to see whether the vine flowered and the pomegranates budded.
And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God. As long as he sought Jehovah, God blessed him.
And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets and coats of armor and bows and stones for the slings.
And he made engines in Jerusalem, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones with. And his name spread far abroad. For he was wonderfully helped until he was strong.
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunites.
And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them.
And he did the right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?
