Daily Bread

²⁹ By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.^(A)

³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.^(B)

³¹ By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.^[a](C)

³² And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon,^(D) Barak,^(E) Samson^(F) and Jephthah,^(G) about David^(H) and Samuel^(I) and the prophets, ³³ who through faith conquered kingdoms,^(J) administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,^{(K) 34} quenched the fury of the flames,^(L) and escaped the edge of the sword;^(M) whose weakness was turned to strength;^(N) and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.^{(O) 35} Women received back their dead, raised to life again.^(P) There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. ³⁶ Some faced jeers and flogging,^(Q) and even chains and imprisonment.^{(R) 37} They were put to death by stoning;^[b](S) they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.^(T) They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,^(U) destitute, persecuted and mistreated— ³⁸ the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves^(V) and in holes in the ground.

³⁹ These were all commended^(W) for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,^{(X) 40} since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us^(Y) would they be made perfect.^(Z)