9 Bible Verses about Fast Runners
Most Relevant Verses
So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.
Saul and Jonathan lovely and pleasant in their lives, were in their deaths not divided; men swifter than Eagles and stronger than Lions.
And there was three sons of Zeruiah there: Joab, Abishai and Asahel - which Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild roe -
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David, when he kept a hold in the wilderness, men of might and men apt for war and could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were thereto as swift as the roes of the mountains:
"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.
These shall run like giants, and leap over the walls like men of war. Every man in his going will keep his array, and not go out of his Path.
The archer shall not abide, and the swift of foot shall not escape. The horseman shall not save his life,
Perceive ye not how that they which run in a course, run all, yet but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain.