5 Bible Verses about Competitions

Most Relevant Verses

Proverbs 24:17-18

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles. Jehovah will see it and be displeased and turn his anger away from him.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong. Bread does not go to the wise, or riches to men of understanding. Men of skill do not always receive favor, but time and unexpected circumstance happens to them all.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

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. 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. I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.read more.
But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.

Psalm 19:5

It comes out of its chamber like a bridegroom. Like a champion, it is eager to run its course.

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