Hebrews 12:4

Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

In Context

3For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.

5And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you up for tribulation, and will kill you, and ye will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

2 Timothy 4:6For I am already poured out a libation, and the time of my dissolution is imminent.

Hebrews 12:2Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Revelation 6:9And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of the Lamb that they held.

Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:2-4

Christ the Great Exemplar. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners… Read the whole commentary →

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