What Does the Bible Say About Workouts?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

2 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

17 Bible Verses about Workouts

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes