Hebrews Chapter 12 verse 4 Holy Bible
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
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Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:
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Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
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Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
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You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
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Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Ye have net yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Here (as in 1 Corinthians 9:26) there is a transition of thought from a race to a combat. Your trials have not yet reached the point of dying in the good fight of faith, as has been the case with some of your brethren before you, who have followed their Leader to the end (cf. Hebrews 13:7).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) 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 put aside; here it is the antagonist who must be subdued. It is interesting to note exactly the same transition in 1Corinthians 9:26. (See Note.) The contest has been maintained but feebly, for no blood has flowed in their struggle with temptation and sin; they have not deserted the arena, but have shrunk from the suffering which a determined struggle would have caused. It is possible that the writer goes beyond the figure in these words, and that the price of their resistance might indeed have been their "blood."
