34 Bible Verses about Competition

Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and strife, but others out of good will.

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.

“Please test your servants for 10 days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

the others proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, seeking to cause me anxiety in my imprisonment.

The king loved Esther more than all the other women. She won more favor and approval from him than did any of the other young women. He placed the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

A good name is to be chosen over great wealth;
favor is better than silver and gold.

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god but don’t light the fire.”

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works,

I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression.”

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

One person gives freely,
yet gains more;
another withholds what is right,
only to become poor.

You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

God gave these four young men knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. Daniel also understood visions and dreams of every kind.

So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the Lord, and He became weary of Israel’s misery.

Now all the believers were together and held all things in common.

Be strong and courageous,
all you who put your hope in the Lord.

He doesn’t let me catch my breath
but soaks me with bitter experiences.

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

But you have abandoned Me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again.

The Lord said to the Israelites, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,

But the Israelites said, “We have sinned. Deal with us as You see fit; only deliver us today!”

Then God spoke all these words:

Now I am giving an opinion on this because it is profitable for you, who a year ago began not only to do something but also to desire it.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

The rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Which man will lead the fight against the Ammonites? He will be the leader of all the inhabitants of Gilead.”