A moment in scripture
Hebrews 11:39
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And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
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The surrounding passage
- Hebrews 11:37
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;
- Hebrews 11:38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
- Hebrews 11:40
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.