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What Does the Bible Say About Athletics?

Here are 7 Bible verses about athletics, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #11 Corinthians 9:24-27

    Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

    BSBDo you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air. No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

  2. #22 Timothy 2:5

    And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

    BSBLikewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.

  3. #3Philippians 4:13

    I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

    BSBI can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

  4. #41 Peter 2:17

    Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

    BSBTreat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

  5. #51 Timothy 4:8

    For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

    BSBFor physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

  6. #62 Timothy 4:7

    I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

    BSBI have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

  7. #7Hebrews 12:1

    Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

    BSBTherefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

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