45 Bible Verses about Race

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

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

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

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

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

If thou have run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how can thou contend with horses? And though in a land of peace thou are secure, yet how will thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

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

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?

And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples 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, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t

But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good-news of the grace of God.

After these things, I looked and lo, a great multitude, which none could number, out of every nation, and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their ha

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of 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 acceptable to him.

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

God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood, who seek after God.

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

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondman nor freeman, there is no male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by origin, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being mighty in the scriptures.

Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.

For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful.

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

And during the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race became manifest to Pharaoh.

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

Watch yourselves, so that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.

of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

And the hand of LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men to be employed therewith.

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?

Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.