Montgomery - Hebrews - 2

2:1  For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

2:2  For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

2:3  Which having begun to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

2:4  God himself corroborating their testimony by signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit imparted in accordance with his own will.

2:5  It is not to angels that God subjected the age to be, of which we are speaking.

2:6  But some one, somewhere, testified, saying. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? Or any man, that thou carest for him?

2:7  Thou hast made him only a little lower that the angels; With glory and honor hast thou crowned him; And hast set him to govern the works of thy hands;

2:8  Thou hast put all things under his feet. For this putting all things under man means leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him.

2:9  What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God’s grace he might taste death for every man.

2:10  For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

2:11  For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

2:12  I will proclaim thy name to my brothers; In the midst of the Church I will hymn thy praises.

2:13  And again, I myself will put my trust in God. And again, Lo, I and the children God has given me.

2:14  Therefore, since the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also similarly partook of the same, in order that through death he might render powerless him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

2:15  And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

2:16  For assuredly it is not angels, nay, it is the offspring of Abraham, whom he is ever taking by the hand.

2:17  And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

2:18  For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.