17 Bible Verses about Competition

And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will.

I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works;

As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

And all the believers were together, and had all things in common.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

And I will give you my opinion in this matter; for this offering is fitting in your case, considering that you made a beginning before others, not only in the willingness to do something but also in actually doing something a year ago.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."