Hebrews 12:4
2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
- KJV
- Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
- WEB
- You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
- ASV
- Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
- DARBY
- Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
- BLB
- Not yet did you⁺ resist unto blood, struggling against sin,
- ÅB
- Enda har dere ikke gjort motstand like til blodet i deres kamp mot synden,
- OTB
- I deres kamp mot synden har dere ennå ikke stått imot til det punkt å utgyte blod.
- B1930
- Ennu har I ikke gjort motstand like til blodet i eders kamp mot synden,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
Read in contextRevelation 2:13
I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Read in contextHebrews 10:32–34
Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
Read in contextHebrews 12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Read in contextMatthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:6–7
For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Read in contextRevelation 12:11
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
Read in contextRevelation 6:9–11
And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.
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