33 Bible Verses about Race

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

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

Therefore I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as a man beating the air.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

And he made from one man every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Not that I have already obtained this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

I went up because of a revelation; and I set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who were of reputation, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.

But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is welcome to him.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

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

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

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

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the scriptures.

"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men,

At the second visit Josnt made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Of them are the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, forever blessed. Amen.

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?