Hebrews 11:36-40

New International Version

³⁶ Some faced jeers and flogging,^(A) and even chains and imprisonment.^{(B) 37} They were put to death by stoning;^[a](C) they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.^(D) They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,^(E) destitute, persecuted and mistreated— ³⁸ the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves^(F) and in holes in the ground.

³⁹ These were all commended^(G) for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,^{(H) 40} since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us^(I) would they be made perfect.^(J)