Bible Verses about “running the race”

“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”

“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.”

“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,”

“Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.”

“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.”

“Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.”

“But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.”

“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,”

“By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.”

“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”

“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.”

“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”

“Be diligent to come to me soon,”

“By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.”

“By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.”

“For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

“Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,”

“But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”

“It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?”

“By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”

“By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.”

“By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.”

“What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;”

“By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.”

“For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.”

“If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.”

“By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,”

“choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;”

“accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.”

“By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.”

“By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.”

“Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.”

“For by this, the elders obtained testimony.”

“By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;”

“concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.”

“By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”

“even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"”

“By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.”

“By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.”

“(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.”

“By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.”

“They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated”

“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”