Bible verses about "sports" | ABU

¹ THEREFORE, let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding, us, lay aside every weight, and the easily besetting sin, and with patience run the race that is set before us,

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

⁸ But now, do ye also put all away, anger, wrath, malice, reviling, filthy communication out of your mouth.

²⁵ And every one who contends for the prize is temperate in all things; they indeed to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

²⁴ Know ye not that they who run in a race, all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

¹³ I can do all things, in him who strengthens me.

¹⁴ I pursue on toward the mark, for the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹² All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

⁵ And if a man also contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.