Bible Verses About Exercise
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for exercise, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,956 votes, led by 1 Timothy 4:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Exercise
1 Timothy 4:8440 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20337 votes
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?
Proverbs 31:17256 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
2 Timothy 4:7254 votes
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
1 Corinthians 9:24-27224 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Philippians 4:13224 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Proverbs 24:5221 votes
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
2 Timothy 2:5188 votes
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Romans 12:1187 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 6:19186 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 10:31174 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
3 John 1:2159 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Isaiah 40:31138 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 9:26-27128 votes
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Samuel 16:7115 votes
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Hebrews 12:12104 votes
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
1 Peter 3:3-4100 votes
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1 Timothy 4:798 votes
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
1 Corinthians 9:2793 votes
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.
Proverbs 10:491 votes
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Hebrews 12:189 votes
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,
1 Corinthians 9:2488 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Revelation 1:188 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Isaiah 40:28-3184 votes
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
1 Timothy 6:682 votes
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
What does the Bible say about exercise?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 4:8 on the subject of exercise. Across 7,956 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Proverbs 31:17, 2 Timothy 4:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.