35 Bible Verses about Sports

So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not jesting?

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

And if a man also competes as an athlete, yet is he not crowned, unless he strives lawfully.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made sport for them: and they set him between the pillars.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;

Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open your mouth wide, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,

There go the ships: there is that leviathan, which you have made to play therein.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

O my soul, come not into their secret; unto their assembly, my spirit, be not united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dug down a wall.

You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to doing evil.

But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of.

Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the blossoms of the valley, and to see whether the vine had budded, and the pomegranates were in bloom.

And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.

He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and body armor, and bows, and slings to cast stones.

And he made in Jerusalem devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and upon the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunites.

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?