Hebrews 2

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 If a message that was spoken through angels proved to be so reliable that every infringement anddisobedience brought its own proper punishment,

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 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 It was not under angels that he put the world to come, about which we are speaking.

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 For a short while you have made him less than the angels; you have crowned him with glory andhonour,

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 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 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 consecrator and consecrated are al of the same stock; that is why he is not ashamed to call thembrothers

¹² in the text: I shal proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly; or in the text:

¹³ I shal put my hope in him; fol owed by Look, I and the children whom God has given me.

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 set free al those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

¹⁶ For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself the line of Abraham.

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 the suffering he himself passed through while being put to the test enables him to help otherswhen they are being put to the test.