Hebrews 12:4

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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, un...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

not yet . Greek. oupo. resisted . Greek. antikathistemi. Only here. unto . Greek. mechris. Compare Philippians 1:2 ; Philippians 1:8 ....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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’...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 for...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hebrews 12:4 .— The apostle having encouraged the Hebrews by the examples of others who had patiently suffered for truth and holiness, especiall...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Contest. Endurance, Holiness, and Divine Communion proposed to the Sons of God Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 c...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 resi...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE DIVINE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE ‘Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unt...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 fl...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 ca...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 thi...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 responsibil...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. A. D....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 fix...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For consider him who has endured such gainsaying of sinners against themselves (or ‘against himself' - see note below), that you wax not weary, fain...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:3 . Consider. —Place your sufferings in comparison with His. Against Himself. —R.V. renders “against t...
Scofield Reference Notes

sin Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Hebrews 12:4 It belongs to a good man to strive against sin. It sounds like a contradiction, indeed, for how should a good man have any sin to str...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 do...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

May the Spirit of God graciously instruct us while we read this chapter! You know that, in the eleventh chapter, the apostle has pictured the ancien...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hebrews 12:1-2 . Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The apostle, having deserted the heroes of the faith, represents them as witnesses of the great race which Christians in all ages have to run. All th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

After giving a long list of the heroes of faith, the apostle adds: Hebrews 12:1-3 . Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a c...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

l, 2. 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 ea...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 arbitra...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 wit...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Unto blood — Unto wounds and death.

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

Related Commentaries of Hebrews 12:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hebrews 12:4