Hebrews 11:32-40 ▼

32 And what more do I say? for the time will fail me recounting of Gedeon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthae; David also, and Samuel, and the prophets:

33 Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions,

34 Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers.

35 Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.

36 And others received trial of jestings and scourges, and further, of bonds and imprisonment:

37 They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth.

39 And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise:

40 God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.