Bible Verses About Athletic Competition

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"

Romans 3:23 ESV

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it."

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV

"But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV

"An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules."

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,"

Hebrews 12:1 ESV

"He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world."

1 John 2:2 ESV

"However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace."

Acts 20:24 NIV

"[ God's Answer ] "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"

Jeremiah 12:5 NIV

"I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."

Ecclesiastes 9:11 NIV

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