Hebrews Chapter 2

Hebrews Chapter 2 is the second chapter in the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is further helpful practice to improve one's reading skills with phonics.

Phonetic words

• disobedience
• demonstrations
• subjection
• temptation
• Devil
• reconciliation

Chapter 2

Therefore we need to take very seriously what we have heard, if we are not to fall away. If the word "spoken by angels" stood firm, and every violation and disobedience met with its due "payback", how can we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation, first spoken about by the Lord, and then passed on to us with surety by those who heard the Lord.

These people had God's own witness to what they were saying by His granting signs, and wonders and various demonstrations of His power, gifts of the Holy Spirit, just as He deemed proper. It was not to angels that He subjected the coming worlds of which we are speaking.

Someone in some place gives testimony, saying, What is man that You think of him or the Son, a human being, that You watch over him? You have made him somewhat less than the angels, you have crowned him with Glory and Honor, and have placed him over the works of Your hands. You have put everything under His feet in subjection to Him. All things are placed in subjection to Him. Nothing has not been put under Him. But we do not see now that all things are put under him.

But we see Jesus, who had become a little "lower than the angels" for the suffering of death, we see Him crowned with Glory and Honor, so, by God's grace, He could taste the death of every man. For it was just like the Father, seeing that everything was created by Him, and it was for Him that they were made, when he determined to bring many sons into Glory, to make the Fount of their salvation, perfect through the suffering which He endured. For both He who makes holy and those who are made holy are one. That is why He is not embarrassed to call them His brothers. Saying, I will proclaim Your name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing Your praises.

And again, I will totally put my confidence in Him, and again, Yes, I and the children God has give me. The one who is speaking in the above verses is the Son. In this verse, it is not clear what the first quote has to do with the second. But perhaps it is this, in the first, He expresses His own trust in God (the Father). Once having expressed that, the second quote tells us He is not alone. With Him in this are the children the Father has given Him. Again, they are one, and then follows the meaning of that oneness.

Because the children were human beings, He also became a human being, so that He might die, and through that, destroy the one holding the power of death, namely, the Devil, freeing them who because of their fear of death, were held in life-long bondage. And so He took on not the nature of angels, but rather that of the seed of Abraham.

Because of all this, it was necessary for Him to be exactly like His brothers, so that He might prove to be a merciful and faithful High Priest toward God for them, and to make a reconciliation for the people's sins. Because He Himself has endured temptation, He is able to help those who are being tempted.

See also

• Epistle to the Hebrews (Translated)