11 Bible Verses about Champions

And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words, and David heard them.

Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it LORD-nissi.

Then Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. And, behold, a young lion roared against him.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.