25 Bible Verses About Competition (ESV)

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

22 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

24 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

15 And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

13   With God we shall do valiantly;
    it is he who will tread down our foes.

30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

4 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”

17   Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.

4:1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?