36. Others had to suffer the trial of mocking and scourging and even chains and imprisonment.
37. They were stoned to death; they were lured with tempting offers [to renounce their faith]; they were sawn asunder; they were slaughtered by the sword; [while they were alive] they had to go about wrapped in the skins of sheep and goats, utterly destitute, oppressed, cruelly treated–
38. [Men] of whom the world was not worthy–roaming over the desolate places and the mountains, and [living] in caves and caverns and holes of the earth.
39. And all of these, though they won divine approval by [means of] their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised,