25 Bible Verses About Competition (NIV)

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. ⁴ Each of you should look not only to your 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 gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

²³ Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,

⁵ Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor's crown unless he competes according to the rules.

⁴ Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else,

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

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

¹³ I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

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

²² What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? ²³ All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless. ²⁴ A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, ²⁵ for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? ²⁶ To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

¹⁵ He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight.

⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

²⁵ Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

¹³ With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

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

⁴ And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

¹² We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

²⁴ However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me--the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

³⁷ For nothing is impossible with God."

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

¹ What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?