Hebrews 2:18
Good News Translation
And now he can help those who are tempted, because he himself was tempted and suffered.

New Revised Standard Version
Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

Contemporary English Version
And now that Jesus has suffered and was tempted, he can help anyone else who is tempted.

New American Bible
Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

suffered.

Hebrews 4:15,16 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. . . .

Hebrews 5:2,7-9 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. . . .

Matthew 4:1-10 Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. . . .

Matthew 26:37-39 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. . . .

Luke 22:53 When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

he is.

Hebrews 7:25,26 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. . . .

John 10:29 That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

Philippians 3:21 Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

2 Timothy 1:12 For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.

Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

them.

1 Corinthians 10:13 Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. . . .

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Context
Jesus Like His Brothers
17Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. 18For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.
Cross References
Luke 22:28
And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations:

Hebrews 4:15
For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

Hebrews 5:2
Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Hebrews 2:17
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