Hebrews 12:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.”
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BSBPD
“In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Not yet unto blood did ye resist--with the sin striving;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Hebrews 12:4 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13No 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.
- 2 Timothy 4:6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- Hebrews 10:32Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
- Hebrews 12:2Let 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.
- Revelation 2:13I 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.
- Revelation 6:9And 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.
- Revelation 12:11They 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.
- Revelation 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
- Revelation 18:24And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
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