Hebrews 12:4

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood in your striving against sin.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, lest you grow weary and fainthearted.

5And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as sons, My son, do not think lightly of the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by him:

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Cross References

Matthew 24:9Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

2 Timothy 4:6For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

Hebrews 12:2Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at 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 those who were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained:

Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered greatly.

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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