Bible Verses About Running A Race

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

"You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?"

"I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who seemed to be leaders, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain."

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize."

"Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air."

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

"“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,"

"“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"

"So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”"

"Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first."

"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”"

"Men will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them."

"When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the evil spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”"

"Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well."

"It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes."

"For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,"

"I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."

"While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade."

"However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace."

"The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut."

"Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies."

"And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered."

"Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away."

"This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)"

"They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them,"