New Testament · Easy read · Hebrews
Hebrews 2
1For this reason we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away.
2For if the word spoken through angels proved to be firm, and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just recompense,
3how shall we escape if we neglect such a great Salvation — which, having begun to be proclaimed through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard?
4God also bearing witness together with them by signs and wonders and various miracles and by distributions of holy spirit according to His own act of willing.
5For it was not to angels that He subjected the coming inhabited world, of which we speak.
6But someone has testified somewhere, saying, "What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?
7You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor."
8"You put all things in subjection under his feet." For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing outside his control; yet at present we do not yet see all things subjected to him.
9But we do see Yeshua, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
10For it was fitting for Him — for whom all things exist and through whom all things exist — in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the pioneer of their Salvation through sufferings.
11For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
12saying, "I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the ekklesia I will sing your praise."
13And again, "I will be trusting in Him," and again, "Behold, I and the children whom God has given me."
14Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise partook of the same, so that through death He might nullify the one having the dominion of death — that is, the devil —
15and deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
16For it is not angels that He helps, but He helps the seed of Abraham.
17Therefore He was obligated to be made like His brothers in every respect, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
18For because He Himself suffered when He was tested, He is able to help those who are being tested.