Bible verses about "sports" | ACV

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the 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 award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹ Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

² Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

¹³ The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

⁸ But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

²⁵ And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

²⁴ Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.

¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. ²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him. ²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed. ²⁹ And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Why is it that thou ask for my name? And he blessed him there. ³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

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 control by anything.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

³¹ Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God.

⁵ And also if any man competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.