Hebrews 12:4
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
2 Timothy 4:6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Hebrews 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Revelation 6:9And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.
Revelation 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
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 →