Hebrifoɔ 2
1 Yei enti na ɛsɛ sɛ yɛsɔ nokorɛ a yɛate no mu denden sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, biribi rentu yɛn aso.
Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, for fear we should drift away.
2 Nsɛm a abɔfoɔ no kaeɛ no yɛ nokorɛ enti obiara a wanni so no nyaa asotwe a ɛfata no.
For, if the Message which was delivered by angels had its authority confirmed, so that every offence against it, or neglect of it, met with a fitting requital,
3 Na sɛ yɛantie saa nkwagyesɛm yi a, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na yɛatumi adwane? Awurade no ankasa na ɔdii ɛkan kaa saa nkwagyeɛ yi ho asɛm na wɔn a wɔtiee no no, ama yɛahunu sɛ ɛyɛ nokorɛ.
how can we, of all people, expect to escape, if we disregard so great a Salvation? It was the Master who at the outset spoke of this Salvation, and its authority was confirmed for us by those who heard him,
4 Saa ɛberɛ korɔ no ara mu Onyankopɔn nam ne nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ ne nʼanwanwadwuma so dii ho adanseɛ. Bio, ɔkyɛɛ Honhom Kronkron no sɛdeɛ ɔpɛ.
while God himself added his testimony to it by signs, and marvels, and many different miracles, as well as by imparting the Holy Spirit as he saw fit.
5 Onyankopɔn amma abɔfoɔ anni ewiase a na wayɛ nʼadwene sɛ ɔrebɛbɔ no so; saa ewiase a yɛka ho asɛm no.
God has not given to angels the control of that Future World of which we are speaking!
6 Na mmom, wɔaka no Atwerɛsɛm no mu baabi sɛ: “Onipa ne hwan a wokae no; na onipa ba nso ne hwan a wʼani ku ne ho?
No; a writer has declared somewhere — ‘What is Man that thou shouldst remember him? Or a Son of Man that thou shouldst regard him?
7 Wobɔɔ no maa ɔyɛɛ akumaa kakra sene abɔfoɔ; na wode wʼanimuonyam ne anidie abɔ no abotire,
Thou hast made him, for a while, lower than angels; With glory and honour thou hast crowned him; Thou hast set him over all that thy hands have made;
8 sɛ ɔnni nneɛma nyinaa so.” Ɛka sɛ Onyankopɔn bɔɔ onipa sɛ “nneɛma nyinaa sodifoɔ.” Yei kyerɛ sɛ biribiara nni hɔ a wɔamfa anhyɛ nʼase. Nanso, seesei yɛnya nhunuu sɛ onipa di nneɛma nyinaa so.
Thou hast placed all things beneath his feet.’ This ‘placing of everything’ under man means that there was nothing which was not placed under him. As yet, however, we do not see everything placed under man.
9 Na mmom, yɛhunu Yesu! Mmerɛ tiawa bi, wɔbrɛɛ no ase sene abɔfoɔ, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, Onyankopɔn adom enti, ɔbɛwu ama nnipa nyinaa. Owuo a ɔwuiɛ no enti, Onyankopɔn de animuonyam abotire abɔ no.
What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honour; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God’s loving-kindness, be on behalf of all mankind.
10 Onyankopɔn na ɔbɔɔ nneɛma nyinaa, na ɔwɔ tumi sɛ ɔyɛ biribiara. Ne saa enti, ɛfiri sɛ ɛyɛ ne pɛ sɛ ɔde ne mma nyinaa bɛba nʼanimuonyam mu no, ɔmaa Agyenkwa no faa amanehunu mu sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, ne mma no nsa bɛka nkwagyeɛ a ɛyɛ pɛ no. Ɛfiri sɛ, Yesu nko ara ne Onipa a ɔbɛtumi adi wɔn anim akɔ nkwagyeɛ mu.
It was, indeed, fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should, when leading many sons to glory, make the author of their Salvation perfect through suffering.
11 Ɔma nnipa yɛ kronkron firi wɔn bɔne mu. Na ɔne wɔn a wayɛ wɔn kronkron no nyinaa wɔ Agya baako. Ɛno enti na Yesu mfɛre sɛ ɔfrɛ wɔn anuanom no.
For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them ‘Brothers.’
12 Ɔka sɛ, “Mɛka wo ho asɛm akyerɛ me nuanom, mɛkamfo wo wɔ wɔn a wɔahyia hɔ no nyinaa anim.”
He says — ‘I will tell of thy Name to my Brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing thy praise.’
13 Ɔsane ka bio sɛ, “Mede me ho bɛto Onyankopɔn so.” Na ɔno nso ka sɛ, “Mma a Onyankopɔn de wɔn ama me no nie.”
And again — ‘As for me, I will put my trust in God.’ And yet again — ‘See, here am I and the children whom God gave me.’
14 Esiane sɛ mma no wɔ honam ne mogya enti, Yesu nso baa onipa tebea mu sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a ɔnam ne wuo no so bɛsɛe ɔbonsam a ɔkura owuo tumi no ahoɔden.
Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of ‘the Children,’ Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death — that is, the Devil —
15 Na ɔnam so agye wɔn a ɛsiane sɛ wɔsuro owuo enti, wɔn asetena mu nyinaa, wɔayɛ nkoa no.
and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.
16 Ɛyɛ nokorɛ turodoo sɛ ɛnyɛ abɔfoɔ na ɔboa wɔn. Na mmom, sɛdeɛ Atwerɛsɛm no ka no, “Ɔboa Abraham asefoɔ.”
It was not, surely, to the help of the angels that Jesus came, but ‘to the help of the descendants of Abraham.’
17 Yei kyerɛ sɛ, ɛkwan biara so no, ɛsɛ sɛ ɔyɛ sɛ ne nuanom sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, ɔbɛyɛ wɔn nokwafoɔ ne mmɔborɔhunufoɔ Ɔsɔfopanin wɔ Onyankopɔn anim, na ɛnam so ma wɔde nnipa bɔne akyɛ wɔn.
And consequently it was necessary that he should in all points be made like ‘his Brothers,’ in order that he might prove a merciful as well as a faithful High Priest in man’s relations with God, for the purpose of expiating the sins of his People.
18 Enti afei, ɔbɛtumi aboa wɔn a wɔasɔ wɔn ahwɛ ɛfiri sɛ, ɔno ankasa wɔsɔɔ no hwɛeɛ maa ɔhunuu amane.
The fact that he himself suffered under temptation enables him to help those who are tempted.
