5 Bible Verses about Competitions
Most Relevant Verses
Do not rejoice when thy enemy falls, and do not let thy heart be glad when he stumbles lest the LORD see it and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of prudence, nor yet grace to men of eloquence; but time and chance happens to them all.
Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it. And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as unto an uncertain thing; so I fight, not as one that beats the air;read more.
but I keep my body under, and bring it into subjection, lest preaching to others, I myself should become reprobate.
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.