Hebrews 2

¹ Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

² For if the message spoken through angels proved binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just penalty,

³ how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? It was first announced by the Lord, and confirmed to us by those who heard him,

⁴ while God also testified to it by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

⁵ Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

⁶ But someone has testified somewhere,
"What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
or a son of man that you care for him?

⁷ You made him a little lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honor,

⁸ putting everything in subjection under his feet."
Now in subjecting everything to him, God left nothing outside his control. Yet at present we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

⁹ But we do see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

¹⁰ For it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons and daughters to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.

¹¹ For the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy all share one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

¹² saying,
"I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters;
in the midst of the assembly I will sing your praise."

¹³ And again,
"I will put my trust in him."
And again,
"Here am I, and the children God has given me."

¹⁴ Since, then, the children share in flesh and blood, he too shared the same, so that through death he might destroy the one who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—

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 he helps Abraham's offspring.

¹⁷ Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every way, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, to 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.