Bible Verses About Emulation
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for emulation, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 288 votes, led by Galatians 5:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Emulation
Galatians 5:2042 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Romans 11:1428 votes
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Hebrews 10:2423 votes
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Genesis 30:1-2422 votes
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Proverbs 3:1-3521 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Romans 10:1917 votes
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Romans 11:1117 votes
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Deuteronomy 32:2115 votes
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Acts 13:4515 votes
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
1 Corinthians 3:314 votes
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Romans 12:613 votes
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Romans 13:1313 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
James 3:1413 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 3:1613 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Genesis 28:6-911 votes
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Romans 11:2511 votes
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
What does the Bible say about emulation?
Readers most often cite Galatians 5:20 on the subject of emulation. Across 288 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 11:14, Hebrews 10:24, Genesis 30:1-24. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.