33 Bible Verses about Race

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.

I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.

But you are 'a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, God's own People,' entrusted with the proclamation of the goodness of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful Light.

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

He made all races of the earth's surface--fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements--

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless he has kept the rules.

No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the Truth?

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.

But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus--which was to declare the Good News of the Love of God.

After this, in my vision, I saw a vast throng which no man could number, of men from every nation and of all tribes, and peoples, and languages. They stood in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, robed in white, holding palm branches in their hands.

Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

But that in every nation he who reverences him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen.

In former generations it was not made known to mankind, as fully as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to the Apostles and Prophets among Christ's People--

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death; so, also, death spread to all mankind, because all men had sinned.

All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

Meanwhile there had come to Ephesus an Alexandrian Jew, named Apollos, an eloquent man, who was well-versed in the Scriptures.

Brothers, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who reverence God, it was to us that the Message of this Salvation was sent.

You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.

For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front,

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.

The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,

In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.

They are descended from the Patriarchs; and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ-he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen.

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?