10 Bible Verses about The Christian Race

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.

Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

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

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

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

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it. And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.read more.
But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.