Bible Verses about “competition”
The Bible contains 24 verses about competition across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”
“each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.”
“Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.”
“Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“For everything spoken by God is possible."”
“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”
“Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.”
“Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.”
“But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.”
“But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.”
“There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.”
“He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”
“For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.”
“Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.”
“For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.”
“For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?”
“For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?”
“For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.”