Hebrews 11:32–39

³²And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, and Samuel and the prophets, ³³who through faith conquered kingdoms, accomplished justice, obtained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴extinguished the effectiveness of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in battle, put to flight enemy battle lines. ³⁵Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection. ³⁶And others experienced mocking and flogging^k, and in addition bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated, ³⁸of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground. ³⁹And although they^* all were approved^l through their faith, they did not receive what was promised,