1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 

2 For since the message spoken 

through angels was binding, and

every violation and disobedience

received its just punishment, 

3 how shall we escape if we ignore

so great a salvation? This salvation,

which was first announced by the Lord, 

was confirmed to us by those who heard

him.

4 God also testified to it by signs,

wonders, and various miracles, and by

gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed

according to his will.

5 It is not to angels that he has subjected

the world to come, about which we are speaking. 

6 But there is a place where someone has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?
7 You made them a little lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor
8 and put everything under their feet.”

In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.

9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the

angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor 

because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he

might taste death for everyone.

God’s Son left heaven to become flesh and blood so He

could offer His life on the cross. In that way, Jesus set free

from sin and death all who believe in Him.

 

10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was

fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything

exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect

through what he suffered. 

11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are

made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed

to call them brothers and sisters.

12 He says,

“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
    in the assembly, I will sing your praises.”

13 And again,

“I will put my trust in him.”

And again he says,

“Here am I, and the children God has given me.”

14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—

And because He was fully man, it was possible for Him to die. Unlike the earthly priests who repeatedly brought animal sacrifices for themselves and the people, Jesus offered Himself once for all to the Father in payment for the sins of mankind. Then, having satisfied God’s justice with His blood, He was raised to life.

15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 

16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 

17 For this reason, he had to be made like them, fully human 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. 

18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.