Bible Verses for Athletes

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all , but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

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.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:

And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: