17 Bible Verses about Competition

But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some through good will, are preaching Christ:

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain ones of those who recommend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not wise.

But I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all speak the same things, and that there may be no schisms among you; but you may be perfected in the same mind and in the same disposition.

the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

but to those who are of self-seeking, and disobedient to the truth, but obedient to unrighteousness, there are indignation and wrath.

and let us recognize one another in the provocation of divine love and good works:

kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.

For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;

And all those who believed were together and had all things common,

If any one comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and even yet his own soul, he is not able to be my disciple.

And herein I give my judgement: for this is profitable to you, who not only began to do, but to be anxious, a year ago:

I am the living bread, having come down from heaven; if any one may eat of me the bread, he will live forever: and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.