1. Therefore, it is necessary that we with more diligence keep the things which we have heard, so that we do not fall.
2. For if the word spoken by the ministry of angels was steadfast and every rebellion and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,
3. how shall we escape, if we belittle such great saving health? Which, having begun to be published by the Lord, has been confirmed unto us by those that heard him,
4. God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders and with diverse miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributing them according to his own will?
5. For unto the angels he has not subjected the world to come, of which we speak.
6. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?
7. Thou didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.
8. Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not see yet that all things are put under him.
9. But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10. For it was expedient that he, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in his glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.