33 Bible Verses about Race

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.

So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

From one forefather he has created every nation of mankind, and made them live all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.

No one who competes in the games is awarded a crown unless he obeys the rules.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.

You were making such progress! Who has stopped your obeying the truth?

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

After that I saw a great crowd which no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.

but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.

(which in past ages was not disclosed to mankind as fully as it has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets)

It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, skilful in the use of the Scriptures.

Brothers! Descendants of the house of Abraham, and those others among you who reverence God! It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,

So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on the mercy of God.

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

On their second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh learned of Joseph's parentage.

Look out for yourselves, take care not to lose what we have worked for, but make sure that you are paid for it in full.

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?