God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,