Bible Verses About Prophets: Were mighty through faith

What more should I say? There isn’t time to tell about Gid‘on, Barak, Shimshon, Yiftach, David, Sh’mu’el and the prophets;

who, through trusting, conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, received what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, had their weakness turned to strength, grew mighty in battle and routed foreign armies.

Women received back their dead resurrected; other people were stretched on the rack and beaten to death, refusing to be ransomed, so that they would gain a better resurrection.

Others underwent the trials of being mocked and whipped, then chained and imprisoned.

They were stoned, sawed in two, murdered by the sword; they went about clothed in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, mistreated,

wandering about in deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground! The world was not worthy of them!

All of these had their merit attested because of their trusting. Nevertheless, they did not receive what had been promised,

because God had planned something better that would involve us, so that only with us would they be brought to the goal.