Hebrews 11:20–40

²⁰By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau; ²¹by faith Jacob dying—each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff; ²²by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command. ²³By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king; ²⁴by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, ²⁵having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season, ²⁶greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward; ²⁷by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One—he endured; ²⁸by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them. ²⁹By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up; ³⁰by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days; ³¹by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

³²And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, ³³who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, ³⁴quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens. ³⁵Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, ³⁶and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; ³⁷they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins—being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, ³⁸of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth; ³⁹and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

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