32 Bible Verses about Race

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

and he made of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their habitation,

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and having palm branches in their hands;

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

but in every nation he that fears him and does righteousness is acceptable to him.

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

AND a certain Jew by the name of Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being powerful in the Scriptures.

Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you that fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.

For you have need of patience, that having done the will of God you may receive the promise.

I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.

who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God and are hostile to all men,

and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.

Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the labor which you performed, but receive a full reward.

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.

Serpents, offspring of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?