17 Bible Verses about Competition
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No contestant in the games is crowned, unless he competes according to the rules.
Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.
Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
Some, indeed, are actually preaching Christ because they are moved by jealousy and partisanship, but others are doing so from the motive of good will;
Indeed, I do not dare to count or compare myself with certain men who are always recommending themselves. But they do not show good sense, because they do continue measuring themselves with one another and comparing themselves with one another.
Now I beg you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to be harmonious in what you say and not to have factions among you, but to be perfectly harmonious in your minds and judgments.
the former are preaching Christ from the motive of rivalry, not in sincerity, supposing that this is making it harder for me to bear my imprisonment.
but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,
Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.
In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,
For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and all sorts of evil practices.
I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,
And all the believers lived together and held all they had as common goods to be shared by one another.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Now I will give you my opinion on this matter. For this is for your interest, because you were not only the first to do anything about it, but the first to want to do so; you started it a year ago.
I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."
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1 Corinthians 9:24-27Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
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