9 Bible Verses about Sports

And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.

in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God:

Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in. contention and in envy:

Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.

But he turned and rebuked them, and said: You know not of what spirit you are.

But about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamah sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?