34 Bible Verses about Competition

And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

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

Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.

For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some who commend themselves, but [they] themselves, [when they] measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, do not understand.

Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same [thing] and there not be divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose.

"Please test your servants [for] ten days, and let them give us {some of the vegetables}, and let us eat and let us drink water.

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction in my imprisonment.

And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a {royal crown} on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

A {reputation} [is] to be chosen {rather than} great riches; {favor is better than silver and gold}.

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you [are] the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don't set fire [under it]."

but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

I also realized that all [of the] toil and all [of] the skillful work that is done--it [is] envy between one man and {another}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble."

For where [there is] jealousy and selfish ambition, there [is] disorder and every evil practice.

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

There is one who gives yet {grows richer}, but he who withholds {what is right} only [finds] need.

And you must not take [as wife] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her {during} her life.

{And as for these four young men}, God gave to them knowledge and insight into all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had insight into all visions and dreams.

So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and {he could no longer bear} the misery of Israel.

And all who believed were in the same [place], and had everything in common.

Be strong and let your heart show strength, all [you] who wait for Yahweh.

He will not allow me to {catch} my breath; rather, he will fill 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, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.

And Yahweh said to the {Israelites}, "[Did I] not [deliver you] from [the] Egyptians, the Amorites, from the {Ammonites}, and from the Philistines?

And the {Israelites} said to Yahweh, "We have sinned; {do to us accordingly as you see fit}; only please deliver us this day."

And God spoke all these words, saying,

And I am giving an opinion in this [matter], because this is profitable for you who not only began previously, a year ago, to do [something], but also to want [to do it].

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live {forever}. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

The people, the ones commanding Gilead, {said to each other}, "Who [is] the man that will begin to fight against the {Ammonites}? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."