Hebrews 11:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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And all these — Though they obtained a good testimony, Hebrews 11:2 , yet did not receive the great promise, the heavenly inheritance.

Hebrews 11:39-40

³⁹ And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

⁴⁰ God having providede some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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