10 Bible Verses about Athletes

a combatant does not receive the crown, unless he has observ'd the laws of the games.

every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air. but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.

exercise yourself in piety: for those exercises which relate only to the body are of little consequence, but piety is of absolute use, having the promises both of the present life, and of the life that is to come.

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

'tis true, all correction at first is far from appearing agreeable, yet afterward it produces the agreeable fruits of virtue in those who are exercised thereby. Wherefore "strengthen your weak hands and your feeble knees. clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd."

I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:

'tis true, all correction at first is far from appearing agreeable, yet afterward it produces the agreeable fruits of virtue in those who are exercised thereby.

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

to these things I am equal, thro' Christ who strengthens me.