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What need is there to say more? Time will fail me if I try to go through all the history of Gedeon, of Barac, of Samson, of Jephte, of David and Samuel and the prophets. (Hebrews 11, 32)
they quenched raging fire, swords were drawn on them, and they escaped. How strong they became, who till then were weak, what courage they shewed in battle, how they routed invading armies! (Hebrews 11, 34)
There were women, too, who recovered their dead children, brought back to life. Others, looking forward to a better resurrection still, would not purchase their freedom on the rack. (Hebrews 11, 35)
they were stoned, they were cut in pieces, they were tortured,✻ they were put to the sword; they wandered about, dressed in sheepskins and goatskins, amidst want, and distress, and ill-usage; (Hebrews 11, 37)
men whom the world was unworthy to contain, living a hunted life in deserts and on mountain-sides, in rock-fastnesses and caverns underground. (Hebrews 11, 38)
for us, God had something better in store. We were needed, to make the history of their lives complete.✻ (Hebrews 11, 40)
Why then, since we are watched from above by such a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of all that weighs us down, of the sinful habit that clings so closely, and run, with all endurance, the race for which we are entered. (Hebrews 12, 1)
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the origin and the crown of all faith, who, to win his prize of blessedness, endured the cross and made light of its shame, Jesus, who now sits on the right of God’s throne. (Hebrews 12, 2)
Take your standard from him, from his endurance, from the enmity the wicked bore him, and you will not grow faint, you will not find your souls unmanned. (Hebrews 12, 3)
Your protest, your battle against sin, has not yet called for bloodshed; (Hebrews 12, 4)
yet you have lost sight, already, of those words of comfort in which God addresses you as his sons; My son, do not undervalue the correction which the Lord sends thee, do not be unmanned when he reproves thy faults. (Hebrews 12, 5)
It is where he loves that he bestows correction; there is no recognition for any child of his, without chastisement.✻ (Hebrews 12, 6)
