Bible Verses About Physical Exercise
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for physical exercise, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 18,707 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 Physical Exercise
1 Timothy 4:81,163 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 6:19-201,069 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?
3 John 1:2620 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Philippians 4:13598 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Corinthians 9:27580 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.
Romans 12:1556 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.
Proverbs 31:17552 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Proverbs 24:5423 votes
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
2 Timothy 4:7420 votes
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
1 Corinthians 9:24379 votes
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 10:31362 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Isaiah 40:28-31342 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.
Isaiah 40:31337 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 9:24-27324 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1 Peter 3:3-4317 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 Corinthians 6:19274 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?
Hebrews 12:1265 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 Samuel 16:7256 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.
Proverbs 10:4246 votes
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
1 Corinthians 3:16237 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 9:26215 votes
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians 3:17203 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 9:26-27202 votes
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
Romans 14:20198 votes
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
2 Peter 1:5-6187 votes
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
What does the Bible say about physical exercise?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 4:8 on the subject of physical exercise. Across 18,707 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 3 John 1:2, Philippians 4:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.