17 Bible Verses about Competition

And if a man contend in the public games, he is not crowned victor, unless he contend according to the laws.

And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

For we will not presume to put ourselves on the level, or compare ourselves with some who vaunt themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, have no understanding.

Now I conjure you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be perfectly united together in the same mind and the same sentiment.

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

But to those who are of a contentious spirit, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath;

and let us attentively observe one another, to excite an ardour of love and of good works:

In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed.

For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Now all who believed were together, and had all things common;

If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And in this I give my opinion: for this is expedient for you, who have before begun not only to do, but also to be willing a year ago.

I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.