10 Bible Verses about The Christian Race

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win. Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading. For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,read more.
but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.