Part 4Now faith is the
[a]substance of things hoped for, the [b]evidence of things not seen.
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets
11:33who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
11:34quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
11:35Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
11:36Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
11:37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, [k]were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—
11:38of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
11:39And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,
11:40God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.