45 Bible Verses about Race

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

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

Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

But you [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

"If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary, then how will you compete with horses? If you have fallen in {a peaceful land}, then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

and it [is] like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run [its] course.

And he made from one [man] every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining [their] fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation,

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

{When the Most High apportioned} [the] nations, at his dividing [up] of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of [the] peoples, according to the number of the children of Israel.

I looked again and saw under the sun that the race [does] not [belong] to the swift, the battle [does] not [belong] to the mighty, food [does] not [belong] to the wise, wealth [does] not [belong] to the intelligent, and success [does] not [belong] to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them.

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

After these [things] I looked, and behold, a great crowd that no one was able to number, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed [in] white robes and [with] palm branches in their hands.

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

A mongrel people will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut down the pride of [the] Philistines.

but in every nation the one who fears him and who does what is right is acceptable to him.

For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,

God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.

(which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit):

Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

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

Now a certain Jew {named} Apollos, {a native} Alexandrian, arrived in Ephesus--an eloquent man who was well-versed in the scriptures.

"Men [and] brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God--to us the message of this salvation has been sent!

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and [who are] not pleasing to God and [are] opposed to all people,

rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight [was] with the children of humankind.

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

And on the second [visit] Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

Watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

[to] whom [belong] the patriarchs, and from whom [is] the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed {forever}! Amen.

but the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab as one comes to Jezreel.

I have seen the busyness God gives to {humans} to preoccupy them.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?

And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.