Hebrews 12:4
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
KJV
Οὔπω μέχρις αἵματος ἀντικατέστητε πρὸς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνταγωνιζόμενοι,
Greek NT
Nondum enim usque ad sanguinem restitistis, adversus peccatum repugnantes :
Vulgate
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
ASV
For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
μέχρι
mechri
adverb · 19×
οὔπω
oupo
adverb · 25×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἀνταγωνίζομαι
antagonizomai
verb · 1×
ἀντικαθίστημι
antikathistemi
verb · 1×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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1. At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, E…
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca
- 1Cor 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca
- 2Tim 2:5 — And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
- 2Tim 4:6 — For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- Eph 6:12 — For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
- Heb 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- Heb 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- Heb 12:2 — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Josh 23:6 — Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
- Matt 24:9 — Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
- Phil 1:30 — Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
- Rev 2:13 — I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was s
- Rev 6:9 — And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
- Rev 12:11 — And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
- Rev 18:24 — And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
- Rom 7:23 — But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.