“What more shall
I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David,
Samuel, and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered
justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched
the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was
turned to strength; and who become powerful in battle and routed foreign
armies. Women received back their dead,
raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that
they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while
still others were chained and put in prison.
They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the
sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and
mistreated – the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and
mountains, and in caves and in holes in the ground.
These were all
commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised.
God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would
they be made perfect.
Hebrews 11: 31-40
(NIV)
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