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35 Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection. 36 Others again were tested by cruel mockery and by scourging; yes, and by chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried by temptation, they were killed with the sword. They went from place to place in sheepskins or goatskins, enduring want, oppression and cruelty. 38 They wandered across deserts and mountains, or hid themselves in caves and in holes in the ground. 39 And although by their faith all these people won God's approval, none of them received the fulfilment of His great promise; 40 for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness. Hebrews 11:35-40, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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