of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Hebrews 11:38 in context
Hebrews 11:35–40
35
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
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of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
39
These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
40
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
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