OLYMPIC GAMES

BOXING:

1 Corinthians 9:26

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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

MARATHON RACE:

1 Corinthians 9:24-25

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Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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

WALKTHON:

Matthew 5:41

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And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

ARCHERY:

Job 16:13

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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

WRESTLING:

Genesis 32:24

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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

THROWING:

Ecclesiastes 3:5

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A time to cast away stones, ..."