12 Bible Verses About Finishing the Race
12 Bible verses about Finishing the Race to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
But I set no value on my life, as if it were precious to me. All I want is to run my course to the end and carry out the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus: to bear full witness to the gospel of the grace of God.
Do you not know that every runner in the stadium races, yet only one is given the prize? Run like that one, so as to win it.
and I run straight for the goal to win the prize promised by God’s upward call in Christ Jesus.
So then, since we too have so vast a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us strip off every burden, and the sin that wraps itself around us so readily, and let us run the race laid out ahead of us, and run it with endurance. Let us keep our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer who leads the way in faith and brings it to perfection. For the sake of the joy that lay ahead of him, he endured a cross and counted its shame as nothing, and he has taken his seat at the right hand of God’s throne.
I have glorified you on earth by completing the work that you gave me to do.
When Jesus had taken the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and handed over his spirit.
Now there is waiting for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
Every competitor holds back from many things in training. They accept this to win a wreath that soon withers; we, to win one that never decays.
Have no fear of anything you are going to suffer. Look: some of you the devil is about to throw into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will face affliction for ten days. Stay faithful even to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Jesus answered, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and keeps looking back is suited for the kingdom of God.”
So then, since we too have so vast a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us strip off every burden, and the sin that wraps itself around us so readily, and let us run the race laid out ahead of us, and run it with endurance.