Bible verse
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
Hebrews 11:38 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hebrews 11.
34 quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
36 Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
40 God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
KJV
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
ASV
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
ERV
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
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