Hebrews 12:4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-8

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 12:3. Consider.—Place your sufferings in comparison with His. Against Himself.—R.V. renders “against themselves,” which is a well-supported reading. Wearied.—R.V. renders “that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.” Stuart renders, “lest, becoming discouraged in your minds, ye grow weary.”Hebrews 12:4. Unto blood.—The last extremity; the surrender of life. Implying that Christ had so resisted. From this we infer that there had been no actual martyrs... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-13

Hebrews 12:3-13 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong. We have emerged, as it were, out of a dark tunnel, and fancy that the rest of our journey will be amid sunlit fields. We have achieved steep and rugged ascents, and imagine the period of great and exhausting exertion is over. The trial deepest and sorest seems to leave us for a while, yet it... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:4

Hebrews 12:4 It belongs to a good man to strive against sin. It sounds like a contradiction, indeed, for how should a good man have any sin to strive against? Nevertheless it is true; for as absolute goodness is not to be found in this fallen world, we must be willing to accept those efforts after it which seem to imply that the idea of it at least exists in the mind and the desire in the heart, while it is exemplified only in a very subordinate degree in the life. The doctrine of the text is,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:4-13

DISCOURSE: 2336AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVEHebrews 12:4-13. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth, not? But... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 12:4

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:4

Hebrews 12:4Not yet resisted unto bloodThe law of Christ’s serviceI.THE LAW OF CHRIST’S SERVICE. Resistance unto blood. 1. This law is not an arbitrary enactment. It is because the strife is against sin, and sin is an evil so terrible and tremendous that we are to resist unto blood. 2. Christianity is distinguished by its estimate of sin: the character it gives to sin. The darkest death man can die is preferable to sin’s power and penalty. II. THE MOTIVE TO OBEDIENCE. Christ’s own example. The... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:4

4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Ver. 4. Ye have not yet resisted ] q.d. You may do, and must look to do. And if you cannot endure words for Christ, how will you endure wounds? If you have run with the footmen, and they have tired you, how can ye contend with horses? Jeremiah 12:5 . Striving against sin ] That is, against sinners that persecute you, or the sin that doth so easily beset you, and solicit you to spare yourself, and rather to yield a little than to... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:4

Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 10:32-Nahum :, Matthew 24:9, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 2 Timothy 4:6, 2 Timothy 4:7, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 6:9-1 Kings :, Revelation 12:11, Revelation 17:6, Revelation 18:24 Reciprocal: Joshua 23:6 - very Jeremiah 12:5 - thou hast Matthew 5:39 - That Romans 7:23 - another 1 Corinthians 9:25 - striveth Ephesians 6:12 - wrestle Philippians 1:30 - the same Colossians 1:29 - striving 2 Timothy 2:5 - strive Hebrews 12:5 - nor faint Revelation 13:10 - Here read more

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