6 Bible Verses About Running the Race
6 Bible verses about Running the Race to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
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.
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. 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.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
and I run straight for the goal to win the prize promised by God’s upward call in Christ Jesus.
You had been running a good race. Who got in your way and turned you from obeying the truth?
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.