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Hebrews 2:5-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.

6. But someone, in a certain place, has testified, saying: "What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man, that you visit him?

7. You have reduced him to a little less than the Angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, and you have set him over the works of your hands.

8. You have subjected all things under his feet." For in as much as he has subjected all things to him, he has left nothing not subject to him. But in the present time, we do not yet perceive that all things have been made subject to him.

9. Yet we understand that Jesus, who was reduced to a little less than the Angels, was crowned with glory and honor because of his Passion and death, in order that, by the grace of God, he might taste death for all.

10. For it was fitting for him, because of whom and through whom all things exist, who had led many children into glory, to complete the authorship of their salvation through his Passion.

11. For he who sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all from One. For this reason, he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:

12. "I will announce your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you."

13. And again: "I will be faithful in him." And again: "Behold, I and my children, whom God has given to me."

14. Therefore, because children have a common flesh and blood, he himself also, in like manner, has shared in the same, so that through death, he might destroy him who held the dominion of death, that is, the devil,

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