62 Bible Verses about Sports
Want to know what the Bible says about Sports? Here are 62 Bible verses about Sports from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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2 Timothy 2:5 NIV
Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules.
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1 Timothy 4:8 NIV
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
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Matthew 23:12 NIV
For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
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1 Corinthians 6:12 NIV
“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
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Proverbs 20:29 NIV
The glory of young men is their strength,
gray hair the splendor of the old.
gray hair the splendor of the old.
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Colossians 3:8 NIV
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
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Proverbs 8:13 NIV
To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
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Proverbs 24:17-18 NIV
17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,
18 or the Lord will see and disapprove
and turn his wrath away from them.
when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,
18 or the Lord will see and disapprove
and turn his wrath away from them.
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Revelation 14:12 NIV
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NIV
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27 No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
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Proverbs 11:2 NIV
When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.
but with humility comes wisdom.
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2 Corinthians 11:30 NIV
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
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Proverbs 27:1-2 NIV
27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.
for you do not know what a day may bring.
2 Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;
an outsider, and not your own lips.
an outsider, and not your own lips.
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Proverbs 30:32-33 NIV
32 “If you play the fool and exalt yourself,
or if you plan evil,
clap your hand over your mouth!
33 For as churning cream produces butter,
and as twisting the nose produces blood,
so stirring up anger produces strife.”
or if you plan evil,
clap your hand over your mouth!
33 For as churning cream produces butter,
and as twisting the nose produces blood,
so stirring up anger produces strife.”
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Proverbs 29:23 NIV
Pride brings a person low,
but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
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Galatians 6:3 NIV
If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
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Luke 12:33-34 NIV
33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Matthew 22:37-38 NIV
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
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Luke 21:34 NIV
“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
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