Hebrews - Chapter 2

Passage

Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed to us by them that heard him. God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will. For God has not subjected to angels the world to come, of which we speak. But one 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? You have made him a little lower than the angels: you have crowned him with glory and honor and have set him over the works of your hands. You have subjected all things under his feet. For in that he has subjected all things to him he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all. For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion. For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: I will declare your name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise you. And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God has given me. Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner has been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil: And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude. For nowhere does he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he takes hold. Therefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like to his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that in which he himself has suffered and been tempted he is able to succor them also that are tempted.