Hebrews 2

¹⁵But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.

¹²Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

¹³I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,

¹My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

²Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

¹My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

²if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

⁹Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

¹On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.

²But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

⁵³you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

¹⁹Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

²⁸Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

⁵Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

²⁶‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

³⁵So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.

²⁸Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

²⁵See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

⁹And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

¹²Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

¹⁷For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

¹⁸And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

³So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

³So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who affirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.

⁵He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

²⁰And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

⁸This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

⁹What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?

⁴There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

¹⁸I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

¹⁹by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

¹⁵Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

¹³But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

⁵who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

⁴what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

⁵You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

³O Lord, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

¹⁷What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

¹⁸that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

¹²“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

⁶how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

⁵You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

⁷but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

³Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

²⁷For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.

⁶You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

¹⁴And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

²⁴Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

²⁵For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

⁷but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

⁸And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

¹⁸So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

⁹This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

¹⁰And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

²He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

³³Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

³⁶For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

¹⁶For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

¹⁷He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

⁸Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.

⁹And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

⁶yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

³¹God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

²⁶Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

²⁹For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

¹⁰And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹⁴because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

¹²And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

¹⁷“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

⁴⁸But Jesus replied, “Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?”

⁴⁹Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers.

²²I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

¹⁰I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

²⁰“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

²⁵My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.

¹⁷I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

¹⁸Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

⁹Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”

²⁹My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

¹⁵Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

¹⁰And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

³For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

¹⁵And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

⁵⁴When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

⁵⁵“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

¹⁴The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

³¹Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

³²And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”

¹⁵For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

⁷⁴deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

⁷⁵in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.

²¹that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

⁴My heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.

¹⁰He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

²⁹And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

¹⁶Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

¹⁷As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

¹⁶The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

¹⁸And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

¹⁶Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.

¹⁴Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

¹⁴Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.

⁷but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

⁸And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

¹⁰For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

²⁶Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

¹⁸All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

¹³No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

¹⁵For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

¹⁶Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

²⁵Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

²⁶Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

²⁴Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

²He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.

¹⁰Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.