WPNT(i)
32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell about Gideon, about Barak and Samson and Jephtha, about David and Samuel and the prophets,
33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, closed lions’ mouths,
34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in battle, put to flight foreign armies.
35 Women received their dead back by resurrection; while others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36 Still others were tried by mockings and scourgings, and even by chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were tempted, they were murdered by sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated
38 —of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.
39 Now all these did not receive the promise, though having been approved through faith,
40 God having planned something better for us, so that they should not be perfected without us.
12 1 So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares,
2 looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.