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32 And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
33 who by their faith conquered kingdoms, attained uprightness, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions,
34 put out furious fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in their time of weakness, proved mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
35 Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life.
36 Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison.
37 They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawed in two, they were killed with the sword. Clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, they were driven from place to place, destitute, persecuted, misused—
38 men of whom the world was not worthy wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.
39 Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they none of them received what he had promised,
40 for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.
12 1 Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,
2 fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.