Bible verses about "sports" | MNT

¹ Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

⁷ I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith. ⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

⁸ But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

²⁵ Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

¹³ I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

¹⁴ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

¹² "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

⁸ For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

³¹ Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

⁵ And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.