Thematic Bible: Were mighty through faith

And what more shall I say: for the time would fail me if I should make a narration concerning Gideon, and Barac, and Sampson, and Jephtha, and David, and Samuel, and the prophets: who by faith vanquished kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, extinguished the force of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, they were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in battle, routed the armies of aliens. read more.
Women received by a resurrection their dead: but others were tortured, not accepting a release; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trials of mockeries and whippings, yea and farther of chains and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they experienced the severest trials, they were slain by the edge of the sword: they went about wrapped in skins of sheep and goats, destitute of all things, pressed down with afflictions, suffering all kind of misery; of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered up and down in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caverns of the earth. And these all though having obtained a testimony by faith, received not the promise: God having provided for us something better, that without us they should not attain to perfection.