| 32 | And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- |
| 33 | who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, |
| 34 | quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. |
| 35 | Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. |
| 36 | Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. |
| 37 | They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- |
| 38 | of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. |
| 39 | And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, |
| 40 | since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. |
