Hebrews 12:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Hebrews 12:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Revelation 2:13
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Hebrews 10:32-34
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; …
2 Timothy 4:6-7
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. …
Hebrews 12:2
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.

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Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Character Contentment Decision Despondency Endurance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-17)

Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin, Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suffe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. 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 c…