Bible verses about "sports" | Moffatt

¹ Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

⁷ I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day — and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

⁸ but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!

²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

¹⁴ to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

¹² 'All things are lawful for me'? Yes, but not all are good for me. 'All things are lawful for me'? Yes, but I am not going to let anything master me.

⁸ The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

³¹ So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

⁵ Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules.