Do not rebuke mockers(A) or they will hate you;
    rebuke the wise and they will love you.(B)
Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still;
    teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.(C)

10 The fear of the Lord(D) is the beginning of wisdom,
    and knowledge of the Holy One(E) is understanding.(F)

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16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.(A)

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Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(A) and death through sin,(B) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(C)

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Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law(A) of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:6 Deut. 24:16

20 The one who sins is the one who will die.(A) The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.(B)

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29 “In those days people will no longer say,

‘The parents(A) have eaten sour grapes,
    and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’(B)

30 Instead, everyone will die for their own sin;(C) whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

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I will not carry out my fierce anger,(A)
    nor will I devastate(B) Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man(C)
    the Holy One(D) among you.
    I will not come against their cities.

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19 God is not human,(A) that he should lie,(B)
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.(C)
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise(D) and not fulfill?

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17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers(A) and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father(B) and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

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19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.(A)

Jesus Prays for All Believers

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one,(B) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.(C) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(D)

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11 Both the one who makes people holy(A) and those who are made holy(B) are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.[a](C) 12 He says,

“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
    in the assembly I will sing your praises.”[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Hebrews 2:12 Psalm 22:22

For there is one God(A) and one mediator(B) between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,(C)

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Son(A) though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered(B) and, once made perfect,(C) he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him

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36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children,(A) since they are children of the resurrection.

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