Sportsmanship
9 passages
- Proverbs 24:17–18
17Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, 18or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
Read it in context - Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 9:25
Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
Read it in context - 2 Timothy 2:5
Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.
Read it in context - Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
Read it in context - Romans 15:2
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
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