Hebrews 12:4

for ye have not resisted unto blood in striving against sin.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Wherefore consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, that ye may not give out, fainting in your minds:

5Have ye forgotten the exhortation, which speaketh to you as to sons, saying, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor saint when rebuked by Him?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:9Then shall they afflict you, and kill you; and ye shall be hated by all nations for my name:

2 Timothy 4:6For I am now going to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution is near.

Hebrews 12:2looking unto Jesus the leader 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.

Revelation 6:9And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been 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 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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