Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Wrought

Bible References

Wrought

Hebrews 11:4
Through faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain did, and through this faith he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it, though he is dead, he still speaks.

Obtained

Hebrews 6:12
so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.
Hebrews 10:36
For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.
Galatians 3:16
(Now the promises were given to Abraham and to his seed. God did not say 'and to seeds,' as if speaking of many, but 'and to your seed,' since He spoke of only one--and this is Christ.)

Stopped

2 Timothy 4:17
The Lord, however, stood by me and filled me with inward strength, that through me the Message might be fully proclaimed and that all the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion's jaws.
1 Peter 5:8
Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.