45 Bible Verses about Race

Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling of the Jordan?

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.

and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

And if also any one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, 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 the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

After these things I saw, and lo, a great crowd, which no one could number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palm branches in their hands.

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before 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 fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:

But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus.

Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:

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

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.

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

and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.

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

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

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of men to toil in.

Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?

And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;