Bible Verses about “running the race”
The Bible contains 50 verses about running the race across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.”
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
“But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“¶ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
“‹But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.›”
“¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
“Looking unto Jesus the author 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.”
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
“¶ Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:”
“Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.”
“¶ By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.”
“For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.”
“Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
“But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.”
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.”
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”
“¶ And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets:”
“By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”
“For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.”
“And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.”
“By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;”
“Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”
“Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.”
“By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.”
“By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:”
“Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.”
“For by it the elders obtained a good report.”
“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],”
“Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”
“By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”
“Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:”
“By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw [he was] a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.”
“Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.”
“(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.”
“By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.”
“They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;”
“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”