In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
- KJV Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
- NKJV You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
- NASB You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
- NLT After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin.
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Quick answer
In their struggle against sin, the readers had not yet resisted to the point of shedding their blood. Their trials, though real, had not reached martyrdom.
Overview
The author reminds his readers that, unlike many before them and unlike Christ, they had not yet suffered to the point of death in their fight against sin and opposition. This puts their hardships in perspective and prepares them for the teaching on God's loving discipline that follows. The struggle against sin is real, but it is not beyond what God enables them to bear.
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- 1 Cor 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.
- Rev 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.
- Heb 10:32–34Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
- 2 Tim 4:6–7For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- Heb 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.
- Rev 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.
- Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
- Rev 6:9–11And 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.
- Rev 18:24And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
- Rev 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.
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