Hebrews 11:39

And although by their faith all these people won God's approval, none of them received the fulfilment of His great promise;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

In Context

38(They were men of whom the world was not worthy.) They wandered across deserts and mountains, or hid themselves in caves and in holes in the ground.

40for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness.

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Cross References

Luke 10:23And He turned towards His disciples and said to them apart, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!

Hebrews 11:13All these died in the possession of faith. They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →

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