14 Bible Verses about football
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Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.
Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses—they are unclean for you.
“This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
But He turned and rebuked them,
So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, having this inscription:
The Lord knows those who are His, and
Everyone who names the name of the Lord
must turn away from unrighteousness.
On that day the Lord will strip their finery: ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents,
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name.
Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.