.

(35)Women received their dead, by resurrection to life; and others
were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a
better resurrection.

(36)And others had trial of mockings, and scourgings, and, moreover,
of bonds and imprisonment. (37)They were stoned, they were sawn
asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword; they went
about in sheep-skins and goats' skins, being destitute, afflicted,
tormented; (38)of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts
and mountains and caves, and the clefts of the earth.

(39)And all these, having obtained a good report through faith, did
not receive the promise; (40)God having provided something better
concerning us, that they should not without us be made perfect.

XII.

THEREFORE, let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses
surrounding, us, lay aside every weight, and the easily besetting sin,
and with patience run the race that is set before us, (2)looking away
to the author and finisher of the faith, Jesus; who for the joy set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on
the right hand of the throne of God. (3)For consider him who has
endured such contradiction by sinners against him, that ye become not
weary, fainting in your souls.

(4)Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin; (5)and ye
have forgotten the exhortation, which discourses with you as with
sons:

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when reproved by him;
(6)For whom the Lord loves he chastens,
And scourges every son whom he receives.

(7)If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what
son is there whom his father chastens not? (8)But if ye are without
chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons.

(9)Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh, who chastened us, and we
gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the
Father of spirits, and live? (10)For they indeed for a few days
chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we
might be partakers of his holiness.

(11)Now all chastening for the present indeed seems not joyous, but
grievous; but afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of
righteousness, to those who have been exercised thereby.

(12)Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
(13)and make straight paths for your feet, that the lame be not