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Hebrews 2:3-18
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Hebrews 2:3-18
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3 how will we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? It was first announced through the Lord, and then it was confirmed by those who heard him. 4 God also vouched for their message with signs, amazing things, various miracles, and gifts from the Holy Spirit, which were handed out the way he wanted.
Jesus is the enthroned human being
5 God didn’t put the world that is coming (the world we are talking about) under the angels’ control. 6 Instead, someone declared somewhere,
What is humanity that you think about them?
Or what are the human beings that you care about them?
7 For a while you made them lower than angels.
You crowned the human beings with glory and honor.
8 You put everything under their control.[a]
When he puts everything under their control, he doesn’t leave anything out of control. But right now, we don’t see everything under their control yet. 9 However, we do see the one who was made lower in order than the angels for a little while—it’s Jesus! He’s the one who is now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of his death. He suffered death so that he could taste death for everyone through God’s grace.
Qualified to be a high priest
10 It was appropriate for God, for whom and through whom everything exists, to use experiences of suffering to make perfect the pioneer of salvation. This salvation belongs to many sons and daughters whom he’s leading to glory. 11 This is because the one who makes people holy and the people who are being made holy all come from one source. That is why Jesus isn’t ashamed to call them brothers and sisters when he says,
12 I will publicly announce your name to my brothers and sisters.
I will praise you in the middle of the assembly.[b]
13 He also says,
I will rely on him.[c]
And also,
Here I am with the children whom God has given to me.[d]
14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he also shared the same things in the same way. He did this to destroy the one who holds the power over death—the devil—by dying. 15 He set free those who were held in slavery their entire lives by their fear of death. 16 Of course, he isn’t trying to help angels, but rather he’s helping Abraham’s descendants. 17 Therefore, he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every way. This was so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, in order to wipe away the sins of the people. 18 He’s able to help those who are being tempted, since he himself experienced suffering when he was tempted.
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Hebrews 2:3-18
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Hebrews 2:3-18
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3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?(A) This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord,(B) was confirmed to us by those who heard him.(C) 4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles,(D) and by gifts of the Holy Spirit(E) distributed according to his will.(F)
Jesus Made Fully Human
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(G) has testified:
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?(H)
7 You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;
you crowned them with glory and honor
8 and put everything under their feet.”[b][c](I)
In putting everything under them,[d] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[e] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[f] 9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor(J) because he suffered death,(K) so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.(L)
10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists,(M) should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.(N) 11 Both the one who makes people holy(O) and those who are made holy(P) are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.[g](Q) 12 He says,
“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
in the assembly I will sing your praises.”[h](R)
13 And again,
And again he says,
14 Since the children have flesh and blood,(U) he too shared in their humanity(V) so that by his death he might break the power(W) of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil(X)— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear(Y) of death. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.(Z) 17 For this reason he had to be made like them,[k](AA) fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful(AB) and faithful high priest(AC) in service to God,(AD) and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.(AE) 18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.(AF)
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- Hebrews 2:7 Or them for a little while
- Hebrews 2:8 Psalm 8:4-6
- Hebrews 2:8 Or 7 You made him a little lower than the angels;/ you crowned him with glory and honor/ 8 and put everything under his feet.”
- Hebrews 2:8 Or him
- Hebrews 2:8 Or him
- Hebrews 2:8 Or him
- Hebrews 2:11 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22.
- Hebrews 2:12 Psalm 22:22
- Hebrews 2:13 Isaiah 8:17
- Hebrews 2:13 Isaiah 8:18
- Hebrews 2:17 Or like his brothers
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