⁹ By faith he abode in the land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

¹⁰ For he looked for a city that hath foundations; whose builder and maker is God.

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.