Bible verse
These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
Hebrews 11:39 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hebrews 11.
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
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
ASV
And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,
ERV
And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,
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