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What will I more say? For the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
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who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.
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Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
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Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
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They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
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(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
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These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn`t receive the promise,
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God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.