30 Bible Verses About Running

“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, 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.”

“I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding.”

“When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble.”

“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

“He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.”

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

“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.”

“You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?”

“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

“With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.”

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”

“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”

“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?”

“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”

“Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”

“You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”

“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”

“Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.”

“Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.”

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”

“As you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.”

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.”

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”

“Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules.”

“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”

“He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;”

“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”