33 Bible Verses about Race
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Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith.
I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should declare the glories of Him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,
and hath made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the seasons before-appointed them, and the bounds of their habitation;
not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus.
And if any one contend in the public games, he gains not the crown unless he contend fairly.
but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.
But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no one could number, out of all nations, and tribes, and people, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and with palms in their hands;
Maintain the glorious combat of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast made a good profession before many witnesses.
but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to Him.
for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;
which in other generations was not made known to men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be co-heirs,
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for to that all have sinned:
and there is neither Jew nor Greek, those is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Now there came to Ephesus a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures.
---Men and brethren, children of the race of Abraham, and all those among you that fear God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
For ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.
Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; who are displeasing to God, and contrary to all men:
and at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known to Pharaoh.
Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which ye have wrought, but that ye may receive a full reward.
whose are the fathers, and of whom, as to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever. Amen.
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Race » Foot race » Figurative
Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the leader and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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The Christian Race
1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
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