< Hebrews 2 >
1 So we should pay even closer attention to what we've learned so we don't drift away from it.
For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.
2 If the message the angels brought was trustworthy, and every sin and disobedient act brings its own consequence,
For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,
3 how will we escape if we don't pay attention to this great salvation that the Lord first announced, and then we had confirmed to us by those who heard him.
how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;
4 God also testified through signs and miracles, by acts that show his power, and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, given as he chose.
God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will?
5 It's not angels who will be in charge of the world to come that we're talking about.
For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;
6 But as it's been said, “What are human beings that you should worry about them? What is a son of man that you should care about him?
but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him?
7 You set him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and placed him over all your creation.
Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, [and hast set him over the works of thy hands; ]
8 You gave him authority over everything.” Nothing was left out when God gave him authority over everything. However, we see that not everything is subject to his authority yet.
thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him,
9 But we see Jesus, placed a little lower than the angels, through the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor. Through God's grace Jesus experienced death for everyone.
but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.
10 It was appropriate that God, who creates and maintains everything, should bring many of his children to glory, and to completely prepare through suffering the one who leads them to salvation.
For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect the leader of their salvation through sufferings.
11 For both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy belong to the same family. That's why he doesn't hesitate to call them “brothers,”
For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified [are] all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 saying “I will announce your name to my brothers; I will praise you among your people when they meet together.”
saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in [the] midst of [the] assembly will I sing thy praises.
13 Also: “I will place my trust in him,” and “Here I am, together with the children God has given to me.”
And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me.
14 Because the children share flesh and blood in common, he shared in this in the same way so that through death he could destroy the one that had the power of death—the devil—
Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil;
15 and free everyone who through fear of death were enslaved all their lives.
and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.
16 Of course it's not angels he's concerned about; he's concerned to help the children of Abraham.
For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand], but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.
17 That's why it was necessary for him to become like his brothers in everything, so that he could become a merciful and trustworthy high priest in the things of God, to forgive his people's sins.
Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;
18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.