by faith...all others...

Let's look at the writer's conclusion to his examination, by the Holy Spirit on faith:
(Hebrews 11.32-40)

³² And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, (Who me?, Judges 6, 7) and of Barak,(Insecurity, Judges 4.9) and of Samson, (momentary weakness, Judges 13-16) and of Jephthae; (Illegitimate, orphaned child, Judges 11-12) of David also,(Shepherd and tender-hearted but spoiled by wealth and power)  and Samuel, (Godly mother and father raised him in church) and of the prophets:
What was their contribution, to the faith, by faith?
³³ Who through faith

•  subdued kingdoms,
•  wrought righteousness, 
• obtained promises,
•  stopped the mouths of lions. 
• ³⁴ Quenched the violence of fire,
•  escaped the edge of the sword, 
• out of weakness were made strong, 
• waxed valiant in fight, 
• turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 
• ³⁵ Women received their dead raised to life again:
•  and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 
• ³⁶ And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, 
• yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 
• ³⁷ They were stoned, 
• they were sawn asunder, (killed by the sword)
•  were tempted, 
• were slain with the sword: 
• they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; 
• being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

³⁸ (Of whom the world was not worthy:) 

• they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

³⁹ And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
⁴⁰ God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Faith, is, like much of scripture, sans the practical applications, "a mystery."  To sum up these 17 study's regarding this great subject of "faith," this blogger will quote one verse used before the "Hall of Faith" is penned in scripture; look at Hebrews 10.38 -

"The JUST shall live BY faith