Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
What More Shall I Say?
32 And what more may I say? For time will fail me while telling about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, both David and Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness[a], obtained[b] promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edges of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in battle, put-to-flight armies of foreigners. 35 Women received their dead by resurrection— but others were tortured, not accepting redemption[c], in order that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 And others received a trial of mockings and whippings, and furthermore of bonds and prison. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn-in-two, they died by murder of the sword. They went-around in sheepskins, in skins of-goats, being in-need, being afflicted, being mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy— wandering in desolate-places and mountains and caves and openings of the earth.
They Did Not Receive The Promise, For God Had a Better Promise For Us
39 And these all, having been attested through their faith, did not receive the promise— 40 God having provided[d] something better for us, in order that they should not be perfected[e] apart from us.
So Run Your Race With Endurance, Looking To Jesus
12 So-therefore we also[f], having so large a cloud of witnesses[g] surrounding us, having laid-aside every weight[h] and the easily-entangling[i] sin, let us be running the race being set-before us with endurance 2 while looking-away toward the author and perfecter[j] of the faith[k]— Jesus— Who endured a cross for[l] the joy being set-before Him, having disregarded[m] the shame[n], and has sat-down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing