4 You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.
Hebrews 12:4 Cross References - Moffatt
Matthew 24:9
9 Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
2 Timothy 4:6-7
Hebrews 10:32-34
32 Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,
33 partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;
34 for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.
Hebrews 12:2
2 our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Revelation 2:13
13 I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst — where Satan dwells.
Revelation 6:9-11
9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;
10 and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"
11 But they were each given a white robe, and told to remain quiet for a little longer, until their number was completed by their fellow-servants and their brothers who were to be killed like themselves.
Revelation 12:11
11 But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.
Revelation 17:6
6 Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.
Revelation 18:24
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, of all who were slain upon earth."