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“And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell
of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; ... and
Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of
lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens.
“Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better
resurrection: and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings,
yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they
wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted,
tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in
deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
“And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, re-
ceived not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us,
that they without us should not be made perfect.”
Hebrews 11:32-40
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