11 Bible Verses about Champions

And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.

So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.

And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:

Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:

Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.

I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.