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Bible Reference Handout

 A three-page handout, with Bible verses arranged by topic.

Similar to the listings in the FCA Bible, this handout is great for high school and college huddles as well as for coaches and volunteers.

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Where To Look When You...


…face a superior opponent - Proverbs 21:31, 2 Timothy 1:7
…worry bout being eligible to play - Colossians 3:23
…just won a championship - Ephesians 5:20, Hebrews 13:15, James 1:17
…have everything all figured out - Proverbs 27:1, James 4:13-16
…want to brag - Proverbs 11:2, 16:18-19, 27:2, Luke 14:11, 1 Peter 5:5-6
…made a mistake that cost the ballgame - Philippians 3:13-14, 4:4-7
…know your favorite girl/guy dated someone else - Psalm 34, Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 14:30, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
…are invited to drink - Psalm 1, Proverbs 12:26, 20:1, 23:29-35, Romans 14:21, 1 Corinthians 5:11, Ephesians 5:18
…need to decide where to go to school/job - Psalm 32:8, Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 6:33
…keep having impure thoughts - Psalm 1:2, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Philippians 4:8
…feel like the only Christian on the team - Psalm 23, Romans 8:31-39
…find out your parents are splitting up - Psalm 27:10, 55:22, 68:5
…disagree with your coach - Ephesians 6:5-8, 1 Peter 13:21
…have a misunderstanding with your parents- Ephesians 6:1-3, Colossians 3:20
…lose your temper with a roommate- Proverbs 17:14, Matthew 18:15-35, James 1:19-26
…wonder if God cares about your game- Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Peter 5:7
…are injured and unable to play- 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, 12:9-10
…are too tired to play another quarter- Psalm 90, Romans 5:3-5, Isaiah 40:29-31
…your teammate dies- John 11:25-26, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
…wanted to win so badly and didn’t- Matthew 26:39
…want to take it easy rather than practice- Proverbs 10:4-5
…are tempted to cheat to get ahead- Proverbs 20:17
…don’t know what to say to God- Romans 8:26
…feel as though nothing is going right- Romans 8:28-29, Hebrews 13:5-6
…are discouraged because you keep blowing it- Psalm 37:23-24, Philippians 3:7-14
…know what is wrong- 1 Corinthians 10:13, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Hebrews 4:15-16, 1 John 1:6
…are propositioned- Proverbs 5, 7:6-27
…want to marry (or date) an unbeliever- 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

ABORTION
Mark 10:19
James 2:11

ANGER
Proverbs 22:24-25
Job 5:2
Ephesians 4:26
James 1:19-21

AUTHORITY
Romans 13:1-5
Ephesians 5:21
Titus 2:9
Titus 3:1
1 Peter 2:13-14

BIBLE STUDY
Psalm 119:9-11
Romans 15:4
2 Timothy 2:15
2 Timothy 4:2

CIRCUMSTANCES
Psalm 103
Isaiah 40
Romans 12:2
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Ephesians 5:20
Philippians 2:14
Philippians 3:13-14
Philippians 4:11-13
Colossians 2:2-3
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

CHARACTER
1 Corinthians 10:31-32
Galatians 5:16-26
Ephesians 5:1-21
Ephesians 6:10-20
Philippians 2:1-11
Philippians 4:8-9
2 Peter 1:1-11

COMFORT
Psalm 46
2 Corinthians 1:3-11

COMPLAINING
Ephesians 4:29
Philippians 2:14

CRITICISM
Matthew 7:1-5
Ephesians 4:29

DEPRESSION
Isaiah 40
1 Corinthians 15:58
Philippians 1:6
Philippians 2:13
Philippians 2:17-18

DEATH (physical)
Romans 5:12
Hebrews 9:27

DEATH (spiritual)
Genesis 2:17
John 5:24
Romans 5:12
Romans 6:23

DISOBEDIENCE
Jeremiah 11:3
2 Corinthians 2:9
Ephesians 5:6
Ephesians 6:1
Philippians 2:8
Colossians 3:22
Hebrews 5:8
1 Peter 1:2
1 Peter 2:8

DIVORCE
Matthew 19: 3-12
Mark 10:2-12
1 Corinthians 7

ENCOURAGE
2 Samuel 19:7
Proverbs 16:24
Romans 1:12
2 Corinthians 7:4
Ephesians 4:29
1 Thessalonians 4:14
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
2 Timothy 4:2
Titus 1:9

FEAR
1 Samuel 12:24
Psalm 23:4
Psalm 55:22
Psalm 56:3-4
Proverbs 29:25
Isaiah 41:10
Hebrews 13:5-6
2 Timothy 1:7

FOCUS ON GOD
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Hebrews 12:1-2
Philippians 3:13-14

FORGIVE
Matthew 6:14
Matthew 18:21-22
Luke 23:34
Colossians 3:13
1 John 1:9

FRIENDSHIP & FELLOWSHIP
1 Samuel 20:4
Proverbs 17:17
Proverbs 18:24
Proverbs 27:5-6
Proverbs 27:9,17
John 15:13
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
1 Corinthians 15:33
Galatians 6:1-2
Philippians 1:3-6
1 John 1:7

GIVE EVERYTHING TO GOD
Psalm 37:3-6
Proverbs 16:3
Proverbs 3:5-6
Romans 12:1-8

GTGTG (Give The Glory To God)
Psalm 115:1
Isaiah 26:12
1 Corinthians 10:31
Colossians 3:17, 23

GOALS
Matthew 6:33
Romans 29
1 Corinthians 9:24-27

GOD’S WILL
Psalm 32:8
Psalm 37:3-7,
Psalm 37:23-24
Jeremiah 29:11-13
Matthew 6:25-34
Romans 12:1-2
Ephesians 1:11
Philippians 4:6-7
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
James 1:5-6

GOSSIP
Proverbs 11:13
Ephesians 4:29
Colossians 3:8
James 4:11

HATRED
Leviticus 19:17
Matthew 5:43-48
1 John 4:20-21

HEAVEN
Matthew 6:1-21
Luke 10:20
John 14:2-3

HELL
Matthew 13:41-42
Matthew 25:41
Revelation 20:10

HOMOSEXUALITY
Romans 1:24-27

LEADERSHIP
Matthew 23:11
1 Corinthians 10:31-32
1 Corinthians 11:1
2 Corinthians 5:20
Philippians 4:9
1 Thessalonians 1:6-7
1 Timothy 4:12

LOVE
Psalm 23:6
Psalm 136: 1-26
Matthew 5:44
Matthew 19:19
Romans 12:9-10
Romans 13:9-10
John 15:13, 17
1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Galatians 5:22
1 John 3:16
1 John 4:7-21

MONEY
Proverbs 23:4-5
Proverbs 30:7-9
Matthew 6:25-34
Hebrews 13:5-6
1 Timothy 6:6-10

MOTIVATION
Galatians 5:22-23
1 Timothy 4:7-8
2 Timothy 1:7

OVER-CONFIDENCE
Proverbs 15:33
Proverbs 29:23
Micah 6:8
Matthew 23:12
Romans 12:3
Philippians 2:3
Colossians 3:12
James 4:6-10
James 4:14-17
1 Peter 5:5-6

PARENTS
Ephesians 6:1-4
Philippians 6:1-3
Colossians 3:20

PERSEVERANCE
John 16:33
Romans 5:3-5
Romans 8:18
Romans 8:28
Romans 12:12
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Galatians 6:9
II Thessalonians 3:5
Hebrews 10:35-36
Hebrews 12:7
James 1:2-4
James 1:12
James 5:7-20
1 Peter 1:3-12

PHYSICAL FITNESS
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
1 Timothy 4:7-8

PLANS
Jeremiah 29:11-13

PRIDE
Proverbs 8:13
Proverbs 11:2
Proverbs 16:18
Proverbs 29:23
Luke 14:11
Romans 12:3
Galatians 6:3

REVENGE
Leviticus 19:18
Matthew 5:38-48
Romans 12:19
1 Thessalonians 5:15

RECOGNITION
Proverbs 27:2
Romans 12:3
2 Corinthians 10:18

SALVATION
John 3:16
Romans 10:9-13
Ephesians 2:8-10

SELFISHNESS
Acts 4:32-35
Philippians 2:3-4
James 3:14-16

SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE
Matthew 5:27-28
1 Corinthians 6:15-20

SEX WITHIN MARRIAGE
1 Corinthians 7:3-5
Hebrews 13:4

STRATEGY
1 Corinthians 9:26
Hebrews 12:1-2
Philippians 3:13-14
Ephesians 6:10-20

STRENGTH
Joshua 1:9
Psalm 118:14
Psalm 46:1-11
Proverbs 21:31
Isaiah 40:29-31
Romans 8:31
1 Corinthians 1:8
1 Corinthians 15:58
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Philippians 6:10
2 Timothy 1:7

SWEARING
Matthew 5:34-37
Ephesians 4:29
Colossians 3:8
James 1:26
James 3:9-10
James 5:12

TEAM SPIRIT
Romans 12:5-9
1 Corinthians 12:25-26
Ephesians 4:2-3
Ephesians 4:32
Philippians 2:3-4
Titus 3:2
1 Peter 2:17
1 Peter 4:9-10

TEMPTATION
1 Corinthians 10:13
1 Corinthians 10:23-24
1 Peter 5:8-9

TRUST
Psalm 32:8
Psalm 37:3-6
Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 29:25
John 14:1
Romans 15:13

WITNESSING
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
2 Corinthians 5:11-20

WORRY/ANXIETY
Psalm 55:22
Matthew 6:25-34
Philippians 4:6
1 Peter 5:7

WORSHIP
John 4:21-24
Romans 12:1-2
Revelation 19:1, 5-8

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