45 Bible Verses about Race

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

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

So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

If you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?

Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

and he comes forth as a bridegroom from his canopy; he rejoices as a strong man to run a race,

And He has made all nations of men of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

And also if anyone competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?

And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.

When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the sons of Israel.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.

But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.

After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession 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 who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted with Him.

For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind to see if any was discerning, who was seeking God.

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and whoever among you fears God, the Word of this salvation is sent to you.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,

So then it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God, the One showing mercy.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

rejoicing in the world, His earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

And to 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 brothers, and Joseph's race was made known to Pharaoh.

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

Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. 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 task which God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son.