choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin's fleeting pleasure.

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship.

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:

by how much, think ye, shall he be counted worthy of more condign punishment who hath trampled on the Son of God, and regarded the blood of his testament, by which he was sanctified, as an unclean thing, and hath treated the gracious Spirit contumeliously?

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

'Tis not therefore to the angels that he has subjected the gospel state of which we are treating.

of which we shall treat another time, if God permit.

Now when he speaks of a new agreement, he is treating the first one as obsolete; but whatever is obsolete and antiquated is almost ready to disappear.