32 Bible Verses about Race
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Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.
Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.
Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.
But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.
Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,
All nations he has created from a common origin, to dwell all over the earth, fixing their allotted periods and the boundaries of their abodes,
Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.
hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.
(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;
fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.
I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;
which was not disclosed to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Spirit),
Thus, then, sin came into the world by one man, and death came in by sin; and so death spread to all men, inasmuch as all men sinned.
There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.
There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.
Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.
Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men
at their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh was informed of Joseph's lineage.
Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.
the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)
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Race » Foot race » Figurative
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.
Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
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The Christian Race
1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
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