¹⁶ For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants.^{(A) 17} For this reason he had to be made like them,^[a](B) fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful^(C) and faithful high priest^(D) in service to God,^(E) and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.^(F)