GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0031.tlg019.perseus-eng2:11.30-12.9 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0031.tlg019.perseus-eng2:11.30-12.9

By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;

who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

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.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

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

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?