Hebrews 11:28–36
28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.↗
29By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.↗
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.↗
31By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.↗
32What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets—↗
33who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,↗
34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.↗
35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.↗
36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.↗
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