2:1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
2:2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
2:3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
2:4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
2:5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
2:6 But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor
2:8 and put everything under his feet.” In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little 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.
2:10 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
2:11 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
2:12 He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises.”
2:13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.”
2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death–that is, the devil–
2:15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
2:16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.
2:17 For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
2:1 Therefore we ought to give heed more abundantly to the things which have been heard lest perhaps we drift away.
2:2 For if the word spoken through angels proved firm and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,
2:3 How shall we escape if we have neglected so great a salvation, which, having had its beginning in being spoken by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who heard,
2:4 God bearing witness with them both by signs and wonders and by various works of power and by distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His will?
2:5 For it was not to angels that He subjected the coming inhabited earth, concerning which we speak.
2:6 But one has solemnly testified somewhere, saying, “What is man, that You bring him to mind? Or the son of man, that You care for him?
2:7 You have made Him a little inferior to the angels; You have crowned Him with glory and honor and have set Him over the works of Your hands;
2:8 You have subjected all things under His feet.” For in subjecting all things to Him, He left nothing unsubject to Him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to Him,
2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death on behalf of everything.
2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
2:11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
2:12 Saying, “I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church I will sing hymns of praise to You.”
2:13 And again, “I will trust in Him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children whom God has given to Me.”
2:14 Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil,
2:15 And might release those who because of the fear of death through all their life were held in slavery.
2:16 For assuredly it is not to angels that He gives help, but He gives help to the seed of Abraham.
2:17 Hence He should have been made like His brothers in all things that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
2:18 For being tempted in that which He Himself has suffered, He is able to help those who are being tempted.