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Hebrews 12:4

Hebrews 12:4
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,.... They had resisted sin, and Satan, and the world, the men of it, and the lusts of it, and its frowns and flatteries, and also false teachers, even every…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ye 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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Ye 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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Hebrews 12:4-17

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Fatherly chastisements should be cheerfully endured

4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood If this be a metaphor drawn from pugilism, as the last is from "running a race," it means that as yet they…