Quotes about Rivalry

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,

Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.

And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”