2. For if the word announced through angels proved firm, and every transgression and disobedience received its just recompense,
3. how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? Announced originally through the Lord, it was confirmed for us by those who had heard.
4. God added his testimony by signs, wonders, various acts of power, and distribution of the gifts of the holy Spirit according to his will.
5. For it was not to angels that he subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
6. Instead, someone has testified somewhere:“What is man that you are mindful of him,or the son of man that you care for him?
7. You made him for a little while lower than the angels;you crowned him with glory and honor,
8. subjecting all things under his feet.”In “subjecting” all things [to him], he left nothing not “subject to him.” Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,”
9. but we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
10. For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering.
11. He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one origin. Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers,”