Bible verses about "sports" | RKJNT

¹ Therefore, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily entangle us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

⁷ I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: ⁸ Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me on that day: and not only to me, but also to all those who have longed for his appearing.

⁸ But now put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy speech from your mouth.

²⁵ And every man who competes is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown; but we an imperishable.

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

¹³ I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize, to which God has called me upward in Christ Jesus.

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

⁸ For bodily exercise is of some value: but godliness is of value in all things, having promise in this life, and in that which is to come.

³¹ Therefore, whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

⁵ And if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.