45 Bible Verses about Race

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

For -- with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, In which thou art confident -- And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, One seeking God.

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus,

'Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men.

And He saith to man: -- 'Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,

A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

and the hand of Jehovah hath been on Elijah, and he girdeth up his loins, and runneth before Ahab, till thine entering Jezreel.

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

'And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,