Hebrews 2

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 We ought, then, to turn our minds more attentively than before to what we have been taught, so that wedo not drift away.	1 For this reason, it is necessary for us to observe more thoroughly the things that we have heard, lest we let them slip away.
2 If a message that was spoken through angels proved to be so reliable that every infringement anddisobedience brought its own proper punishment,	2 For if a word that was spoken through the Angels has been made firm, and every transgression and disobedience has received the recompense of a just retribution,
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;	3 in what way might we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? For though initially it had begun to be described by the Lord, it was confirmed among 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.	4 with God testifying to it by signs and wonders, and by various miracles, and by the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, in accord with his own will.
5 It was not under angels that he put the world to come, about which we are speaking.	5 For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.
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?	6 But someone, in a certain place, has testified, saying: “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man, that you visit him?
7 For a short while you have made him less than the angels; you have crowned him with glory andhonour,	7 You have reduced him to a little less than the Angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, and you have set him over the works of your hands.
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,	8 You have subjected all things under his feet.” For in as much as he has subjected all things to him, he has left nothing not subject to him. But in the present time, we do not yet perceive that all things have been made subject to 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.	9 Yet we understand that Jesus, who was reduced to a little less than the Angels, was crowned with glory and honor because of his Passion and death, in order that, by the grace of God, he might taste death for all.
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.	10 For it was fitting for him, because of whom and through whom all things exist, who had led many children into glory, to complete the authorship of their salvation through his Passion.
11 For consecrator and consecrated are al of the same stock; that is why he is not ashamed to call thembrothers	11 For he who sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all from One. For this reason, he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:
12 in the text: I shal proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly; or in the text:	12 “I will announce your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.”
13 I shal put my hope in him; fol owed by Look, I and the children whom God has given me.	13 And again: “I will be faithful in him.” And again: “Behold, I and my children, whom God has given to 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,	14 Therefore, because children have a common flesh and blood, he himself also, in like manner, has shared in the same, so that through death, he might destroy him who held the dominion of death, that is, the devil,
15 and set free al those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.	15 and so that he might free those who, through the fear of death, had been condemned to servitude throughout their entire life.
16 For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself the line of Abraham.	16 For at no time did he take hold of the Angels, but instead he took hold of the offspring 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.	17 Therefore, it is fitting for him to be made similar to his brothers in all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful High Priest before God, in order that he might bring forgiveness to the offenses of the people.
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.	18 For in as much as he himself has suffered and has been tempted, he also is able to assist those who are tempted.