Williams(i)
32 And why should I continue to mention more? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
33 who by their faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions,
34 stopped the force of fire, escaped from dying by the sword, out of weakness found great strength, grew mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
35 Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.
36 Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.
37 They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated --
38 men of whom the world was not worthy, though wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.
39 Though all these people by their faith won God's approval, yet none of them received what He had promised,
40 for God had provided something still better for us, that they, apart from us might not attain perfection.
12 1 Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,
2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.