Hebrews 12:4
Ye have not yet come unto blood, in the contest against sin.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 24:9And they will deliver you up to tribulation, and will kill you: and ye will be hated by all nations, on account of my name.
2 Timothy 4:6But I am soon to be immolated; and the time of my dissolution hath come.
Hebrews 12:2And let us look on Jesus, who hath become the commencement and the completion of our faith; who, on account of the joy there was for him, endured the cross, and surrendered himself to opprobrium; and is seated on the right hand of the throne of God.
Revelation 6:9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them who were slain on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony to the Lamb which was with them.
Revelation 17:6And I saw that the woman was intoxicated with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw 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 →