33 Bible Verses about Race

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith;

I therefore so run, not as one uncertain; I so fight, not as one striking the air;

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

And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

Therefore let us also, being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us;

And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed appointed times, and the bounds of their habitation;

Not that I have already obtained, or have been already perfected; but I press on, if I may also lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ.

And if a man contendeth in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contendeth lawfully.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?

And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the gentiles; but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

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

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on everlasting life, to which thou wast called, and didst profess the good profession before many witnesses.

but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to him

For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;

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

So then as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus [death] came through unto all men, because all sinned

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus;

And a certain Jew, named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Brethren, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you was the word of this salvation sent forth.

For ye have need of endurance; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive what is promised.

Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth to the things that are before,

So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.

who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,

And at the second time Joseph was recognized by his brothers, and the kindred of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which ye wrought, but receive a full reward.

whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

Serpents, brood of vipers! how can ye escape the punishment of hell?