14 Bible Verses about football
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Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
But he turned and rebuked them, "You don't know of what kind of spirit you are.
He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."
In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.