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2:1  Therefore, we should pay much closer attention to what we have heard so that we do not drift away.
2:2  For if the message delivered by angels proved to be so valid that every transgression and disobedience brought a proper punishment,
2:3  how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? It was first announced by the Lord and then confirmed for us by those who heard him.
2:4  God also testified to it by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
2:5  For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
2:6  But someone has offered this testimony somewhere: “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?
2:7  You made him a little lower than the angels, yet crowned him with glory and honor
2:8  and put everything under his feet.” Now in putting everything under his feet, he left nothing that is not subject to his control. Right now we do not yet see everything under his feet.
2:9  However, 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.
2:10  In bringing many sons to glory, it was completely fitting that he, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
2:11  Both the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all proceed from one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brethren,
2:12  saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”
2:13  And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Here I am, together with the children God has given me.”
2:14  Therefore, since the children are all made of flesh and blood, Jesus likewise shared in the same flesh and blood, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death—that is, the devil—
2:15  and set free those who throughout their lives had been held in slavery by the fear of death.
2:16  For clearly he did not come to help angels but rather he came to help the descendants of Abraham.
2:17  Therefore, he had to be made like his brethren in every way in order that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest before God and expiate the sins of the people.
2:18  Because he himself was tested by suffering, he is able to help those who are being tested.