Do not neglect the great salvation

1So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away. ²¹

2For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty, ²²

3how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord's declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him[S], ²³

4God adding His[F] attestation by signs, wonders, various miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His own will. ²⁴

Temporarily lower than the angels

5Because it is not to angels that He has subjected the coming inhabited earth, ²⁵about which we are speaking;

6rather, there is a place where someone testified ²⁶saying: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or son of man that you care for him?

7You made him lower than the angels, for a little while; ²⁷You crowned him with glory and honor, ²⁸

8You subjected all things under his feet.” It follows that in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not so subjected. However, we do not yet see everything subjected to him, at present.

9But we do see Jesus, who ‘was made lower than the angels, for a little while’ ²⁹(in order to suffer death), ‘crowned with glory and honor’—this, by the grace of God, so that He[S] might taste death on behalf of everyone. ³⁰

“Bringing many sons into glory”

10Because it was appropriate to Him[F], for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, ³¹to complete the Author of their salvation through sufferings. ³²

11For both He[S] who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’,

12saying, “I will declare Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You.”

13And again, “I will put my trust in Him[F]”; and again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.” ³³

14Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He[S] Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had ³⁴the power of death—that is, the devil—

15and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death. ³⁵

16(Now surely He does not assist angels, ³⁶but He does assist Abraham's seed.)

17That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation ³⁷for the sins of the people.

18For in that in which He Himself endured suffering, having been tested, ³⁸He is able to assist those who are being tested.