Sportsmanship

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. — read the full passage →

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape. — read the full passage →

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, — read the full passage →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. — read the full passage →

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.” — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’” — read the full passage →

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. — read the full passage →

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. — read the full passage →

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. — read the full passage →