45 Bible Verses about Race

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.

and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.

For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

which in other generation was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures.

Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do , forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race became manifest unto Pharaoh.

There is a generation whose teeth are as'swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

and the hand of Jehovah was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.