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35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
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Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.
36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
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Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two,they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated--
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They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated—
38 of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
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These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,
40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
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since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
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