Hebrews 12:4

Hebrews 12:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
• New International Version (NIV)In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
• English Standard Version (ESV)In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

Context of Hebrews 12:4

2looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: 5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:4 word by word

οὔπω μέχρις αἵματος ἀντικατέστητε πρὸς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνταγωνιζόμενοιRead the interlinear

• yetοὔπωoupō · not yetG3768
• bloodαἷμαaima · bloodG129
• sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266

Cross-references for Hebrews 12:4

• Hebrews 12:2looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Hebrews 10:32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
• Matthew 24:9Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name’s sake.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
• 2 Timothy 4:6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.
• Revelation 2:13I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.
• Revelation 6:9And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
• Revelation 12:11And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.
• Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.
• Revelation 18:24And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.

Commentaries on Hebrews 12:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood - Many of those already mentioned were martyrs for the truth; they persevered unto death, and lost their lives in bearing testimony to the truth. Though you have had opposition and persecution, yet you have not been called, in bearing your testimony against sin and sinners, to seal the truth with your blood. Striving against sin - ̔ · An allusion to boxing at the Grecian games. In the former passages the apostle…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin - The general sense of this passage is, “you have not yet been called in your Christian struggles to the highest kind of sufferings and sacrifices. Great as your trials may seem to have been, yet your faith has not yet been put to the severest test. And since this is so, you ought not to yield in the conflict with evil, but manfully resist it.” In the language used here there is undoubtedly a…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood: This community had not yet faced dying for their faith. (This is one reason to date Hebrews before Nero's persecution in the mid-60s AD.) If Jesus could endure a shameful death, the listeners should handle less severe persecution.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. not yet resisted unto blood--image from pugilism, as he previously had the image of a race, both being taken from the great national Greek games. Ye have suffered the loss of goods, and been a gazing-stock by reproaches and afflictions; ye have not shed your blood (see on He 13:7). "The athlete who hath seen his own blood, and who, though cast down by his opponent, does not let his spirits be cast down, who as often as he hath fallen hath risen the…Read the comment

Topics related to Hebrews 12:4

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Persecution
• Perseverance
• Resignation
• Temptation

In the dictionaries

• Acceptably
• Aside
• Birthright
• Bitterness
• Carefully
• Chastening
• Cloud
• Contradiction
• Endure
• Finisher

Commentaries on Hebrews 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings