39 [a]And these all through faith obtained good report, and received [b]not the promise,

40 God providing a better thing for us, that they [c]without us should not be made perfect.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:39 An amplification taken of the circumstance of the time: their faith is so much the more to be marveled at, by how much the promises of things to come were more dark, yet at length were indeed exhibited to us, so that their faith and ours is as one, as is also their consecration and ours.
  2. Hebrews 11:39 But saw Christ afar off.
  3. Hebrews 11:40 For their salvation did hang upon Christ, who was exhibited in our days.

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