Hebrews 2

1 Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

For this reason we ought the more earnestly to attend to what we have heard, least by any means we should be found deficient.

2 For if the message spoken through angels was valid and every transgression and disobedience received a just retribution,

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received it's just recompence;

3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which began to be declared by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard Him;

4 God also bore further witness with signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

God also testifying together with them by signs, and wonders, and divers miracles, and gifts of the holy Spirit, according to his own will.

5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

For He hath not subjected to angels the world to come, of which we speak.

6 But in one place someone has testified: “What is man that yoʋ are mindful of him, or the son of man that yoʋ care for him?

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?

7 Yoʋ made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor;

Thou madest Him for a little while inferior to the angels; with glory and honor hast thou crowned Him, and hast set Him over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,"

8 yoʋ put everything in subjection under his feet.” In subjecting everything to him, God left nothing that is not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

For in putting all things under Him, He left nothing which was not to be in subjection to Him: though we do not yet see all things subjected to Him.

9 But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

But we see Jesus, who was made for a little while lower than the angels, in order to suffer death, that by the grace of God He might taste death for every man, crowned with glory and honor.

10 For in bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

For it became Him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect by sufferings:

11 For he who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

since He that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

12 saying, “I will declare yoʋr name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing yoʋr praise.”

saying, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee."

13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

And again, "I will trust in Him:" and again, "Behold, I, and the children which God hath given me."

14 Therefore, since the children all have flesh and blood, Jesus himself took on flesh and blood as well, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Seeing then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself in like manner partook of them; that by death He might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil:

15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death.

and deliver those who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage.

16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but the descendants of Abraham.

For indeed He taketh not hold of angels to save them, but of the seed of Abraham.

17 Therefore he had to become like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Whence it behoved Him to be made in all things like unto his brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high-priest in the things concerning God, to make atonement for the sins of the people:

18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

for as He himself hath suffered, in being tempted, He is able to succour those that are tempted.