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¹ For this cause, it behoveth us, with unwonted firmness, to be holding fast unto the things that have been heard, lest, at any time, we drift away.² For, if the word through messengers spoken became firm, and, every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,³ how shall, we, escape, if, so great a salvation as this, we have neglected, - which, indeed, having received, a beginning, of being spoken through the Lord, by them who heard, unto us was confirmed,⁴ God, jointly witnessing also, both with signs and wonders and manifold mighty works, and with distributions of Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

⁵ For, not unto messengers, hath he subjected the coming habitable earth of which we are speaking;⁶ But one somewhere hath borne witness, saying - What is man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? Or the son of man, that thou shouldst put him in charge?⁷ Thou hast made him less, some little, than messengers, With glory and honour, hast thou crowned him, - And hast set him over the works of thy hands;⁸ All things, hast thou subjected beneath his feet. For, in subjecting, to himthe all things, nothing, left he, to him unsubjected; But now, not yet, do we see, to him, the all things subjected; - ⁹ But, Jesus, made some little less than messengers, we do behold: by reason of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, to the end that, by favour of God, in behalf of every one, he might taste of death.

¹⁰ For it was becoming in him - For the sake of whom are the all things, and by means of whom are the all things, - when, many sons, unto glory, he would lead, The Princely Leader of their salvation, through sufferings, to make perfect.¹¹ For, both he that maketh holy, and they who are being made holy, are, all, of One; For which cause, he is not ashamed to be calling them, brethren,¹² saying - I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of an assembly, will I sing praise unto thee;¹³ and again - I, will be confident upon him; and again - Lo! I, and the children which, unto me, God, hath given.

¹⁴ Seeing therefore the children have received a fellowship of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took partnership in the same, - in order that, through death, - he might paralyse him that held the dominion of death, that is, the Adversary, - ¹⁵ And might release these - as many as, by fear of death, were all their lifetime liable, to bondage.¹⁶ For, not surely of messengers, is he laying hold, but, of Abraham's seed, he is laying hold.¹⁷ Whence he was obliged, in every way, unto the brethren, to be made like, that he might become a merciful and faithful high-priest, in the things pertaining unto God, - for the making of propitiation for the sins of the people.¹⁸ For, in that, he, suffered when tested, he is able, unto them who are being tested, to give succour.