THE FIRST WARNING: Do not neglect salvation
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📚✭Therefore✭ we ought to pay more careful attention to the things we have heard✭, lest at any time we drift away✭ from them. 2 📚For if the word spoken by angels✭ was firm✭, and every violation of the Law and every disobedience was justly paid back in full, 3 📚how will we escape, if we neglect so great salvation✭, which at the first was spoken by the Lord✭, and which was confirmed✭ to us✭ by those who heard him? 4 📚God also✭ gave witness with them, both with signs and wonders, and with many kinds of miracles, and gifts✭ of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.Christ, not angels, will rule the world to come
5 📚✭For it is not to the angels that he has subjected the world to come✭, of which we speak.
Christ, for a little while, was made lower than the angels, but now is again exalted above them
6 📚✭✭But someone in a certain place testified and said,
What is man that you bring him to mind?
Or the son of man,
that you visit him?
7 📚You made him a little lower than the angels.
You crowned him with glory and honour,
and placed him over the works of your hands.
8 📚You have put all things in subjection
under his feet.
For in putting all things in subjection under him, he omitted nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. 9 📚✭But we see Jesus crowned with glory and honour, the One who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every man.
Christ was made lower than the angels, not for their sake, but for men
10 📚For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory✭, to make the author of their salvation✭ perfect through sufferings. 11 📚✭For both he who sanctifies✭ and those who are sanctified are all of one. For this reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 📚✭saying,
I will declare your name to my brothers,
in the midst of the church
I will sing praise to you.
13 📚And again, I will put my trust in him.
And again, See, I and the children
whom God has given me.
14 📚Since therefore the children✭ had flesh and blood, he also himself took of the same, so that through death he might destroy the one having the power✭ of death✭, that is, the devil, 15 📚and deliver those who through fear of death were, throughout their lifetime, under the heel of slavery.
16 📚✭For he certainly does not take hold of angels to help them, but he takes hold of the children of Abraham✭.