33 Bible Verses about Race

Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.

I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,

From one forefather He made every nation of mankind, for living all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.

No contestant in the games is crowned, unless he competes according to the rules.

But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

You were running beautifully! Who was it that cut into your way and kept you from obeying the truth?

I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose.

But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

After this I looked, and there was a vast throng that no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him.

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

which in the earlier ages, so different from the present, was not made known to mankind as fully as now, but through the Spirit it has been revealed to His Holy apostles and prophets --

So here is the comparison: As through one man sin came into the world, and death as the consequence of sin, and death spread to all men; because all men sinned.

There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.

Meanwhile, a Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was a native of Alexandria, a learned man, and skillful in the use of the Scriptures.

Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

Indeed, to carry out the will of God and to receive the blessing He has promised, you need endurance, for:

Brothers, I do not think that I have captured it yet, but here is my one aspiration, so forgetting what is behind me and reaching out for what is ahead of me,

So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; and who continue to displease God and show themselves in opposition to all mankind,

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and thus Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

Look out for yourselves, so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so as to get your full reward.

the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape a sentence to the pit!