34 Bible Verses about Competition

Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will;

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

“Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

A good name is to be more desired than great wealth,
Favor is better than silver and gold.

So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.

You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.

And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common;

Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord.

“He will not allow me to get my breath,
But saturates me with bitterness.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you.

The Lord said to the sons of Israel, “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

The sons of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please deliver us this day.”

Then God spoke all these words, saying,

I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

The people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”