11:36 又有人忍受戲弄、鞭打、捆鎖、監禁、各等的磨煉，
11:37 被石頭打死，被鋸鋸死，受試探，被刀殺，披著綿羊、山羊的皮各處奔跑，受窮乏、患難、苦害，
11:38 在曠野、山嶺、山洞、地穴，飄流無定，本是世界不配有的人。
11:39 這些人都是因信得了美好的證據，卻仍未得著所應許的；
11:40 因為上帝給我們預備了更美的事，叫他們若不與我們同得，就不能完全。
Some faced jeers and flogging, and even
chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in
two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and
goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of
them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in
the ground. These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received
what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that
only together with us would they be made perfect.
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我們要紀念那些為信仰遭受到迫害迫害的人，因為主也紀念他們，預備我們與他們一同得著上帝的應許。要是他們沒有承受上帝賜的永遠福分，我們就更不配的上帝的賜福。
也因此，我們要紀念那些位主受到迫害的人，感謝他們為這信仰的勞苦，使我們因他們的見證的激勵，繼而堅定我們的信心。
要是我們也與他們一樣受迫害，更要感謝主，因為主不會忘記的，祂記念我們為祂受苦、受逼迫，有生命冠冕要賜給我們！
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