33 Bible Verses about Race

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:

I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;

but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,

and he has made from one blood every nation of men, that they might dwell on all the face of the earth, having marked out their appointed times, and the bounds of their dwelling:

Not that I have already attained, or have already reached the goal; but I am pressing forward, that I may lay hold on that for which I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth?

And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.

But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, that no one could number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and there were palms in their hands;

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

but, in every nation, he that fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.

for I could wish my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

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

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

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

And a certain Jew, named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Brethren, I do not conclude that I have already laid hold:

Therefore, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men,

and, on their second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and the kindred of Joseph were made known to Pharaoh.

Look to yourselves, that we lose not the things that we have gained, but that we receive a full reward.

to whom belong the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, as it respects the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?