1. For this reason, it is necessary for us to observe more thoroughly the things that we have heard, lest we let them slip away.
2. For if a word that was spoken through the Angels has been made firm, and every transgression and disobedience has received the recompense of a just retribution,
3. in what way might we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? For though initially it had begun to be described by the Lord, it was confirmed among us by those who heard him,
4. with God testifying to it by signs and wonders, and by various miracles, and by the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, in accord with his own will.
5. For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.
6. But someone, in a certain place, has testified, saying: "What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man, that you visit him?
7. You have reduced him to a little less than the Angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, and you have set him over the works of your hands.