• Hebrews 11:35-39
  Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,
   

Related Scriptures

• 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
  For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
   
• Philippians 2:13
  for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
   
• Romans 15:4
  For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
   
• Ephesians 2:8
  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
   
• Philippians 4:13
  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.