26. esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
27. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28. By faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of the blood lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempted to do and were drowned.
30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days.
31. By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish together with the disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
32. And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthae, of David also and Samuel and of the prophets,
33. who by faith won kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34. quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, were made valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of foreign enemies;
35. women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;
36. and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;
37. they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,
38. (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth.
39. And these all, approved by testimony of faith, received not the promise,
40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.