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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 11, Verse 38

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(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
King James Version
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
American Standard Version
And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,
New English Translation
And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
World English Bible
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
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God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
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And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
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For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
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If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
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But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?