19. Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.
20. By faith also of things to come, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
21. By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and adored the top of his rod.
22. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the going out of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents; because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict.
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.
27. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.
28. By faith he celebrated the pasch, and the shedding of the blood; that he, who destroyed the firstborn, might not touch them.
29. By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.
30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.
31. By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.
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 caved of the earth.