Bible Verses About The Roman Empire: Foot races

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Messiah, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yeshua.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.