9 Bible Verses about Sports

No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless he has kept the rules.

So that he might himself bring the Church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless.

Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.

First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,

This is the way by which to know the inspiration of God--All inspiration that acknowledges Jesus Christ as come in our human nature is from God;

Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.'

But Jesus turned and rebuked them.

And about three Jesus called out loudly: "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani"--that is to say, 'O my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?'