35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again.(A) There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging,(B) and even chains and imprisonment.(C) 37 They were put to death by stoning;[a](D) they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.(E) They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,(F) destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves(G) and in holes in the ground.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:37 Some early manuscripts stoning; they were put to the test;

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, 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.

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