Hebrews 2

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we should let them slip.	1 We ought, then, to turn our minds more attentively than before to what we have been taught, so that wedo not drift away.
2 For if the word, spoken by angels, became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:	2 If a message that was spoken through angels proved to be so reliable that every infringement anddisobedience brought its own proper punishment,
3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? which having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.	3 then we shal certainly not go unpunished if we neglect such a great salvation. It was first announced bythe Lord himself, and is guaranteed to us by those who heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness by signs, and wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.	4 God himself confirmed their witness with signs and marvels and miracles of al kinds, and bydistributing the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the various ways he wil s.
5 For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.	5 It was not under angels that he put the world to come, about which we are speaking.
6 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him: or the son of man, that thou visitest him?	6 Someone witnesses to this somewhere with the words: What are human beings that you spare athought for them, a child of Adam that you care for him?
7 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast set him over the works of thy hands:	7 For a short while you have made him less than the angels; you have crowned him with glory andhonour,
8 Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath subjected all things to him, he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him.	8 put al things under his feet. For in putting al things under him he made no exceptions. At present, it istrue, we are not able to see that all things are under him,
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God, he might taste death for all.	9 but we do see Jesus, who was for a short while made less than the angels, now crowned with glory andhonour because he submitted to death; so that by God's grace his experience of death should benefit allhumanity.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion.	10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should, in bringing many sons toglory, make perfect through suffering the leader of their salvation.
11 For both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:	11 For consecrator and consecrated are al of the same stock; that is why he is not ashamed to call thembrothers
12 I will declare thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the church will I praise thee.	12 in the text: I shal proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly; or in the text:
13 And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.	13 I shal put my hope in him; fol owed by Look, I and the children whom God has given me.
14 Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:	14 Since al the children share the same human nature, he too shared equal y in it, so that by his deathhe could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the devil,
15 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.	15 and set free al those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.
16 For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.	16 For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself the line of Abraham.
17 Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.	17 It was essential that he should in this way be made completely like his brothers so that he couldbecome a compassionate and trustworthy high priest for their relationship to God, able to expiate the sins of thepeople.
18 For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.	18 For the suffering he himself passed through while being put to the test enables him to help otherswhen they are being put to the test.