Race
4 lines · 9 passages
- 1. Human
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Unity of
Gen 3:20; Mal 2:10
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:2010 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2:10 - 2. Foot race
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Figurative
Ps 19:5; Eccl 9:11; 1 Cor 9:24; Gal 5:7; Phil 2:16; Heb 12:1, 2
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Psalms 19:511 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:1124 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1 Corinthians 9:247 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Galatians 5:716 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.
Philippians 2:161 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,
Hebrews 12:12 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.
Hebrews 12:2
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
