²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter;

²⁵ Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time,

²⁶ Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

³² And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

³³ Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

³⁴ Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners:

³⁵ Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.

³⁶ And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons.

³⁷ They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:

³⁸ Of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth.

³⁹ And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise;

⁴⁰ God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.

12 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

² Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.