Race
Paul loved to picture the Christian life as a footrace. “So run, that ye may obtain,” he tells the Corinthians, and he hopes he has not “run in vain.” Hebrews adds a cloud of witnesses, a call to lay aside “every weight,” and an invitation to run “with patience the race that is set before us,” looking to Jesus. Ecclesiastes strikes a sober note: “the race is not to the swift.” A few verses on this page mean the human family instead, as when Eve is called “the mother of all living.” Hebrews 12:1 and 2 is the place to start.
8 verses
Genesis
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Psalms
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Ecclesiastes
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
1 Corinthians
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Galatians
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Philippians
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Hebrews
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.