12 Bible verses about Sports and Competition KJV

1 Corinthians 9:24 · KJV

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

1 Corinthians 9:25 · KJV

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.

1 Corinthians 9:27 · KJV

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.

Hebrews 12:1 · KJV

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,

2 Timothy 2:5 · KJV

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

Philippians 3:14 · KJV

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:23 · KJV

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Proverbs 27:17 · KJV

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

1 Timothy 4:8 · KJV

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.

Galatians 6:9 · KJV

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 · KJV

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

2 Timothy 4:7 · KJV

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