36. Some were mocked and whipped, and others were put in chains and taken off to prison.
37. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword. They went round clothed in skins of sheep or goats — poor, persecuted, and ill-treated.
38. The world was not good enough for them! They wandered like refugees in the deserts and hills, living in caves and holes in the ground.
39. What a record all of these have won by their faith! Yet they did not receive what God had promised,
40. because God had decided on an even better plan for us. His purpose was that only in company with us would they be made perfect.