45 Bible Verses about Race

Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

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

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

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

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

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

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

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

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.