Bible Verses about “run the race”
The Bible contains 16 verses about run the race across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.”
“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”
“Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,”
“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.”
“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.”
“looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
“Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.”
“Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.”
“For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.”
“Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.”