Hebrews 2:1-8 ▼

1 Therefore, we must attend all the more to what we have heard, so that we may not be carried away.

2 For if the word announced through angels proved firm, and every transgression and disobedience received its just recompense,

3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? Announced originally through the Lord, it was confirmed for us by those who had heard.

4 God added his testimony by signs, wonders, various acts of power, and distribution of the gifts of the holy Spirit according to his will.

5 For it was not to angels that he subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

6 Instead, someone has testified somewhere: “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?

7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor,

8 subjecting all things under his feet.” In “subjecting” all things [to him], he left nothing not “subject to him.” Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,”