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Pay Attention to Salvation

For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

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Warning Against Neglecting Salvation

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

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For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

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For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

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how shall *we* escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

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how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,

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God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will?

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while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

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Jesus Made Like His Brothers

For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

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The Founder of Salvation

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

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but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him?

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It has been testified somewhere,
“What is man, that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man, that you care for him?

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Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, [and hast set him over the works of thy hands;]

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You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned him with glory and honor,a

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thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to *him*,

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putting everything in subjection under his feet.”
Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

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but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

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But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

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For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect the leader of their salvation through sufferings.

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For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

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For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified [are] all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

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For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source.b That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,c

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saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in [the] midst of [the] assembly will I sing thy praises.

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saying,
“I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

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And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children which God has given me.

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And again,
“I will put my trust in him.”
And again,
“Behold, I and the children God has given me.”

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Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil;

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Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

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and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.

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and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

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For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand], but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

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For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.

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Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;

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Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

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for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.

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For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

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