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Hebrews 11:39
Hebrews 11:39 is verse 39 of Hebrews chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
King James Version
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
World English Bible
These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
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Hebrews 11:37–40 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Hebrews 11:2This is why the ancients were commended.
Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Luke 10:23Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
Luke 10:24For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”
1 Peter 1:12It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.