32 Bible Verses about Race

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.

For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

"He has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the bounds of their habitation,

I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

After this I looked, and behold a great multitude, whom no man could number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

"but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

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

Thus, then, sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death and so death spread to all men, because all had sinned.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, a learned man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

"Brothers, sons of Abraham's race, and all among you who reverence God, to us has the word of this salvation been sent.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

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

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

theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

"You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?