Bible Verses About Prophets: Were mighty through faith

And what shall I more say? for the time would be too short for me to tell of Gedeon, of Barac, and of Sampson, and of Iephte, also of Dauid, and Samuel, and of the Prophets:

Which through faith subdued kingdomes, wrought righteousnesse, obteined the promises, stopped the mouthes of lions,

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sworde, of weake were made strong, waxed valiant in battell, turned to flight the armies of the aliants.

The women receiued their dead raised to life: other also were racked, and woulde not be deliuered, that they might receiue a better resurrection.

And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.

They were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandred vp and downe in sheepes skinnes, and in goates skinnes, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented:

Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.

And these all through faith obteined good report, and receiued not the promise,

God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfite.