011:034 quenched the power of fire,{Daniel 3:1-30} escaped the edge of the sword,{1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20} from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee. 011:035 Women received their dead by resurrection.{1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20} Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 011:036 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. 011:037 They were stoned.{2 Chronicles 24:20-21} They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.{Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10} They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 011:038 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. 011:039 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise, 011:040 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect. 012:001 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 012:002 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 012:003 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls. 012:004 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; 012:005 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; 012:006 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."{Proverbs 3:11-12} 012:007 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? 012:008 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. 012:009 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 012:010 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 012:011 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.