¹This is why we should pay attention all the more to the things heard: so that we do not at any time drift away. ²For if the word spoken by angels came to be inviolable, and every transgression and disobedience received legitimate retribution, ³how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which started to be spoken about by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard it, ⁴while God bore additional witness with them by signs and miracles and various deeds of power and by distributions of holy spirit, according to his will? ⁵For he has not made the world which is to come, about which we speak, subject to angels, ⁶but someone solemnly testified in a certain place and said, Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left him nothing unsubjected to him. But right now we do not yet see everything subjected to him. ⁹But we do see Jesus, who had been made lower than the angels for a short while, on account of suffering death now crowned with glory and honour, in order that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone's sake. ¹⁰For it was fitting for him, for whose sake everything exists, and by whom everything exists, who led many sons to glory, to bring the institutor of their salvation to perfection through sufferings. ¹¹For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, and for this reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹²and he says, ¹³And again, And again, ¹⁴Now since the children are constituted of flesh and blood, so he likewise partook of the same, in order that through death he might nullify him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, ¹⁵and release them – all those who through fear of death throughout their whole life were subject to enslavement. ¹⁶For he did not, of course, take on kinship with angels, but took on the seed of Abraham. ¹⁷Hence he needed to become like his brothers in all respects in order to become a merciful and faithful high priest of things relating to God, to expiate the sins of the people. ¹⁸For in that he himself has suffered, having been put to the test, he is able to help those undergoing testing.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.6 ↔ Psalm 8:5^MT (Psalm 8:4^AV), Psalm 144:3 ● v.7 ↔ Psalm 8:6^MT (Psalm 8:5^AV) ● v.8 ↔ Psalm 8:7^MT (Psalm 8:6^AV) ● v.12 ↔ Psalm 22:23^MT (Psalm 22:22^AV) ● v.13 ↔ 2 Samuel 22:3, Psalm 18:3^MT (Psalm 18:2^AV); Isaiah 8:18.