34 Bible Verses about Competition

If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown.

Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.

Some preach Christ from envy and strife and some from good will.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves. But they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves. They are without understanding.

I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there are no divisions among you. You should be perfectly joined together (united) in the same mind and thought.

Test your servants, please, for ten days. Give them vegetables to eat and water to drink.

But the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition without pure motives, thinking to cause me great suffering and distress in my imprisonment.

Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women. To his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins. So he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

A good name is better than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: Take one bull for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are so many of you; and make your prayers to your god, but do not light the fire.

Those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will receive wrath and indignation.

Let us consider one another to encourage love and good works:

I have learned why people work so hard to succeed. It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is vanity! It is like chasing the wind.

Be devoted to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another.

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them save you in your time of trouble.

For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

There is one who scatters, and yet increases. There is one who withholds what is due and it leads to poverty.

While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.

God gave these young people knowledge, understanding, and wisdom of all types of literature and learning. Daniel had understanding and wisdom in all visions and dreams.

So they removed the foreign gods and worshiped Jehovah. He could bear the distress of Israel no longer.

All those who believed stayed together. They held all things in common.

Be strong, all who wait with hope for Jehovah, and let your heart be courageous.

He will not allow me to catch my breath. Yet he fills me with bitterness.

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

You still left me and worshiped other gods. I am not going to rescue you again.

Jehovah answered: Did I free you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines?

But the people of Israel said to Jehovah: We have sinned. Do to us what seems best to you, only please, save us today!

God spoke all these words:

I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread he will live forever. Yes and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.

There the people and the leaders of Gilead asked one another: Who is the man to lead the fight against the Ammonites? Whoever does will be the leader of everyone in Gilead.