45 Bible Verses about Race

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

If thou didst run with the footmen and they will weary thee, and how wilt thou contend with horses? and in the land of peace thou trustest, and how wilt thou do in the grandeur of Jordan

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,

And he as a bridegroom coming forth from his nuptial couch, will rejoice as a strong one to run a way.

And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having limited the times before arranged, and the bounds of their habitation;

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

And also if any contend for a prize, he is not crowned, except he contend for a prize lawfully.

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

Ye were running well; who hindered you not to obey the truth?

And I went up according to revelation, and placed before them the good news which I proclaim in the nations, but apart to them highly esteemed, lest I run in vain, or ran.

The Most High distributing the nations, In his dispersing the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.

I turned back, and saw under the sun that not to the fleet the race, and the war not to the strong, and also not to the wise, bread; and also not to the understanding ones, riches; and also not to the knowing, favor; for time and chance will light upon all of them.

But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

After these things I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which none could number it, of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, having put round white robes, and palm trees in their hands;

Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

And a foreigner dwelt in Ashdod, and I cut off the pride of the rovers

But in every nation he fearing him, and working justice, is acceptable to him.

For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

God from the heavens looked forth upon the sons of man to see if there is he understanding, seeking God.

Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor free, there is neither male and female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being able in the writings.

Men, brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent.

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

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,

Surely then, not of him Willing, nor of him running, but of God commiserating.

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man.

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

And in the second time, Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race was manifest to Pharaoh.

A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.

Look to yourselves, lest we should destroy what things we have wrought, but we should receive a full reward.

Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen.

And the hand of Jehovah was to Elijah; and he will bind up his loins, and he will run before Ahab, even to thy Coming to Jezreel.

I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it

Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?

Thou shall not marry with them; thy daughters thou shalt not give to his son, and his daughter thou shalt not take to thy son.