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Warning to Pay Attention

Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For if the message declared through angels proved valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,(A) how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was confirmed for us by those who heard him,(B) while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will.(C)

Exaltation through Abasement

Now God[a] did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.(D) But someone has testified somewhere,

“What are humans that you are mindful of them[b]
    or mortals that you care for them?[c](E)
You have made them for a little while lower[d] than the angels;
    you have crowned them with glory and honor,[e]
    subjecting all things under their feet.”

Now in subjecting all things to them, God[f] left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,(F) but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[g] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God[h] he might taste death for everyone.(G)

10 It was fitting that God,[i] for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.5 Gk he
  2. 2.6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
  3. 2.6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
  4. 2.7 Or them only a little lower
  5. 2.7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
  6. 2.8 Gk he
  7. 2.9 Or who was made a little lower
  8. 2.9 Other ancient authorities read apart from God
  9. 2.10 Gk he