1 That is why we must hold all the more closely to what we have heard, so that we do not drift past it.
2 For if the word that was spoken through angels was valid, and every transgression and act of disobedience received its fair reward,
3 how shall we get away if we pay no heed to so great a salvation? It began by being spoken through the Lord, and was made firm for us by those who heard,
4 God bearing joint witness with signs and wonders, with powers of many kinds, and with portions of the Holy Spirit handed out according to his own will.
5 For it was not under angels that he placed the coming inhabited world we speak of.
6 Instead, someone has borne witness in a certain place, saying, "What is man, that you remember him, or the son of man, that you look after him?
7 For a little while you made him lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor and placed him over what your hands have made;
8 you have subjected all things beneath his feet." For when he subjected all things to him, he left nothing unsubjected to him. But at present we do not yet see all things subjected to him.
9 Yet Jesus, made for a short time lower than the angels, we see crowned with glory and honor on account of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.
10 For it suited him, on whose account all things are and through whom all things are, as he was bringing many sons to glory, to perfect through sufferings the founder of their salvation.
11 For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin, and for that reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
12 when he says, "I will announce your name to my brothers; in the middle of the assembly I will sing hymns to you."
13 And again, "I will put my confidence in him." And again, "Look, I and the children God has given me."
14 Since, therefore, the children have flesh and blood in common, he also shared in these very things, so that through death he might render powerless the one who had the power of death, namely the devil,
15 and might set at liberty all those who, through fear of death, were bound to slavery all their lives long.
16 For clearly it is not angels that he takes hold of to help, but the seed of Abraham.
17 So he was obliged to be made like his brothers in everything, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in matters toward God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
18 For since he himself has suffered under trial, he is able to come to the rescue of those who are being tried.