Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
- BSB In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
- 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 10:13There 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 escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
- Rev 2:13I 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 slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
- Heb 10:32–34But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- 2 Tim 4:6–7For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- Heb 12:2Looking 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.
- Rev 12:11And 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.
- Matt 24:9Then 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.
- Rev 6:9–11And 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 18:24And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
- Rev 17:6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
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