Bible verses about "sportsmanship" | KJV

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. ²⁵ And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: ²⁷ But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

² Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

⁸ Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. ⁹ Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. ¹⁰ Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

⁷ But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. ⁸ For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

² Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

⁵ And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

²⁵ And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

¹⁷ Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: ¹⁸ Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.