Do Not Neglect Salvation
1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
2 For if the wordspoken through angels proved steadfast, andevery transgression and disobedience received a just reward,
3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation,which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and wasconfirmed to us by those who heardHim,
4 God also bearing witnessboth with signs and wonders, with various miracles, andgifts of the Holy Spirit,according to His own will?
The Son Made Lower than Angels
5 For He has not putthe world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.
6 But one testified in a certain place, saying:
# “What is man that You are mindful of him,
Or the son of man that You take care of him?
7 You have made him a little lower than the angels;
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
And set him over the works of Your hands.
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”
# For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothingthatisnot put under him. But nowwe do not yet see all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus,who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of deathcrowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste deathfor everyone.
Bringing Many Sons to Glory
10 For it was fitting for Him,for whomareall things and by whomareall things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvationperfect through sufferings.
11 Forboth He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctifiedareall of one, for which reasonHe is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 saying:
# “I will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”
13 And again:
# “I will put My trust in Him.”
And again:
# “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, HeHimself likewise shared in the same,that through death He might destroy him who had the power ofdeath, that is, the devil,
15 and release those whothrough fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
17 Therefore, in all things He hadto be made likeHisbrethren, that He might bea merciful and faithful High Priest in thingspertainingto God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.