“ Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. ”
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 s...
(4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (4) He takes an argument from the profit which comes to us by God's chastisements, unless we are at fault. First of all because sin, or...
With the example of Christ before them the readers are to show more constancy under their own sufferings. They are to think of Him whose life was so thwarted by wicked men, and thus nerve themselves...
not yet . Greek. oupo. resisted . Greek. antikathistemi. Only here. unto . Greek. mechris. Compare Philippians 1:2 ; Philippians 1:8 . striving . Greek. antagonizomai. Only here. s...
4. Ye have not yet, resisted unto blood, etc. He proceeds farther, for he reminds us, that even when the ungodly persecute us for Christ’s sake, we are then contending against sin. Into t...
DISCOURSE: 2336 AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVE Hebrews 12:4-13 . Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as...
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood - Many of those already mentioned were martyrs for the truth; they persevered unto death, and lost their...
Hebrews 12:4 .— The apostle having encouraged the Hebrews by the examples of others who had patiently suffered for truth and holiness, especially that of Christ, now adds, that they were not yet...
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Not yet resisted unto blood - image from pugilism, as from a race; both taken from the national Greek games. Ye have suffered the lo...
The Contest. Endurance, Holiness, and Divine Communion proposed to the Sons of God Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patien...
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood. — Still the general figure is retained, but for the footrace is substituted the contest of the pugilists. In Hebrews 12:1 sin was the hindrance which must be...
CHAPTER XIV. CONFLICT. "Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run...
Persistently Press Forward Hebrews 12:1-8 In one of Raphael's pictures the clouds, when looked at minutely, are seen to be composed of little cherub-faces; and those who have already witnessed...
After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four secti...
(3) For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (5) And ye...
THE DIVINE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE ‘Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou t...
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 adve...
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Ver. 4. Ye have not yet resisted ] q.d. You may do, and must look to do. And if you cannot endure words for Christ, how will you endure...
For consider him Draw the comparison and think; the Lord bore all this, and shall his servants bear nothing? If he suffered, if he endured such things, why should not we do so also? If he, though s...
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. A. D. 62. ...
Ye have suffered ranch for Christ already, but there is more that he requires from you, and is yet behind, Hebrews 10:32-34 ; the condition he fixed with you as his disciples, in Luke 14:26 , t...
‘For consider him who has endured such gainsaying of sinners against themselves (or ‘against himself' - see note below), that you wax not weary, fainting in your souls. You have not yet resisted unto...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:3 . Consider. —Place your sufferings in comparison with His. Against Himself. —R.V. renders “against themselves,” which is a well-supported reading. We...
sin Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).
Hebrews 12:3-13 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lif...
Hebrews 12:1 . 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, Or «entangle us.» Hebre...
Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course,...
Not yet resisted unto blood The law of Christ’s service I. THE LAW OF CHRIST’S SERVICE. Resistance unto blood. 1. This law is not an arbitrary enactment. It is because the strife is against...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19 , but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1-58 . I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that...
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ; 2 Timothy 4:6 ; 2 Timothy 4:7 ; Hebrews 10:32-34 ; Hebrews 12:2 ; Matthew 24:9 ; Revelation 12:11 ; Revelation 17:6 ; Revelation 18:24 ; Revelation 2:13 ; Revelation...
Unto blood — Unto wounds and death.