45 Bible Verses about Race

You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don't you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious.

I have fought the good fight. I have completed the race. I have kept the faith.

That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing.

I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly call in the Messiah Jesus.

Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Indeed, if you run with others on foot, and they tire you out, how can you compete with horses? You are secure in a land at peace, but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,

which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, or like a champion who rejoices at the beginning of a race.

From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live,

It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.

Moreover, no one who is an athlete wins a prize unless he competes according to the rules.

No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.

as you hold firmly to the word of life. Then I will be proud when the Messiah returns that I did not run in vain or work hard in vain.

You were running the race beautifully. Who cut in on you and stopped you from obeying the truth?

I went in response to a revelation, and in a private meeting with the reputed leaders, I explained to them the gospel that I'm proclaiming to the gentiles. I did this because I was afraid that I was running or had run my life's race for nothing.

When the Most High gave nations as their inheritance, when he separated the human race, he set boundaries for the people according to the number of the children of God.

I considered and observed on earth the following: The race doesn't go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor food to the wise, nor wealth to the smart, nor recognition to the skilled. Instead, timing and circumstances meet them all.

But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Fight the good fight for the faith. Keep holding on to eternal life, to which you were called and about which you gave a good testimony in front of many witnesses.

A strange people will inhabit Ashdod, and I will eliminate the arrogance of Philistia.

Indeed, whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my own people,

God looks down from the heavens upon humanity to see if anyone shows discernment as he searches for God.

which in previous generations was not made known to human beings as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets. This is that secret:

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

Meanwhile, a Jew named Apollos arrived in Ephesus. He was a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, and well versed in the Scriptures.

"My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people,

rejoicing in his inhabitable world and taking delight in mankind."

He has commanded mankind: "To fear the Lord that is wisdom; to move away from evil that is understanding.'"

On their second trip, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph introduced his family to Pharaoh.

Some people have swords for teeth and knives for fangs to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.

To the Israelis belong the patriarchs, and from them, the Messiah descended, who is God over all, the one who is forever blessed. Amen.

After Ahab had left, the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his mantle into his belt and outran Ahab in a race to the city gate of Jezreel.

I have observed the burdens placed by God on human beings in order to perfect them.

You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons,