sportsmanship
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17When your enemy will fall, do not be glad, and do not let your heart exult in his ruin, 18lest perhaps the Lord see, and it displease him, and he may take away his wrath from him.
3Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself.
5Then, too, whoever strives in a competition is not crowned, unless he has competed lawfully.
27Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.
2Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification.
23Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth: an outsider, and not your own lips.
14And do everything without murmuring or hesitation.
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
7But avoid the silly fables of old women. And exercise yourself so as to advance in piety. 8For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.
24Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve. 25And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible. 26And so I run, but not with uncertainty. And so I fight, but not by flailing in the air. 27Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, 23meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.