By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days. 31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace. 32And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets: 33Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners. 35Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. 36And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons. 37They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: 38Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth. 39And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise: 40God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.