33 Bible Verses about Race
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Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
And every one who strives in the games exercises self restraint in all things; they, indeed, therefore, to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
But ye are "an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation," a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;
and He made of one every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having marked out their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
And, if also one contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.
But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
After these things I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation, and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;
Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called, and confessed a good confession before many witnesses.
but, in every nation, he who fears Him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to Him.
(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;
which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned;
There exists neither Jew nor Greek, there exists neither bond nor free, there exists neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a learned man, came down to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.
Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you who fear God, to us the word of this salvation was sent forth.
For ye have need of patience, that, after having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;
and, at the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers; and Joseph's race became known to Pharaoh.
Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.
whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
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Race » Foot race » Figurative
Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us; looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Race » Human » Unity of
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The Christian Race
1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.
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