Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

He exhorts us to be obedient to the new law that Christ has given us, and not to be offended at the infirmity and low degree of Christ, because it was necessary that for our sakes he should take such a humble state upon him, so that he could be like his brethren.

2 Therefore we ought to give the more heed to the things that we have heard, lest we perish. ² For if the word that was spoken by angels was sure, so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense in reward, ³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? – which at the first began to be preached by the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed to us by those who heard it, ⁴ God bearing witness to it both with signs and wonders also, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will.