Bible verses about "sportsmanship" | Darby

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God`s glory.

²³ meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

²⁴ Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain. ²⁵ But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible. ²⁶ *I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. ²⁷ But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

¹⁴ I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

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

⁸ or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness. ⁹ Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good: ¹⁰ as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

¹³ I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

⁷ But profane and old wives` fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety; ⁸ for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.

² Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

²³ Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as [doing it] to the Lord, and not to men;

⁵ And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.

²⁵ But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

²⁴ Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

¹⁷ Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth; ¹⁸ lest Jehovah see it, and it be evil in his sight, and he turn away his anger from him.

³ [let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;