Hebrews 11:33

Examples Of Faith In Action

³² What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets; ³³ who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

By Faith

From God

Judges 14:5-6

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

Joshua 6:1-13

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

1 Samuel 17:33-36

Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."

2 Samuel 5:4-25

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

2 Samuel 7:11-17

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

2 Samuel 8:1-14

After this it happened that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

Psalm 18:32-34

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Psalm 44:2-6

You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

Psalm 91:13

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

Psalm 144:1-2

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

Psalm 144:10

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Daniel 6:20-23

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Hebrews 6:12-15

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Hebrews 11:4-8

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Hebrews 11:17

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.