Warning to Pay Attention
1We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. 4God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
Jesus Made Fully Human
5It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6But there is a place where someone has testified:
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?
7You made them a little2:7 Or them for a little while lower than the angels;
you crowned them with glory and honor
8and put everything under their feet.”2:6-8 Psalm 8:4-62:7,8 Or 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; / you crowned him with glory and honor / 8 and put everything under his feet.”
In putting everything under them,2:8 Or him God left nothing that is not subject to them.2:8 Or him Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.2:8 Or him 9But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
10In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.2:11 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22. 12He says,
“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
in the assembly I will sing your praises.”2:12 Psalm 22:22
13And again,
“I will put my trust in him.”2:13 Isaiah 8:17
And again he says,
“Here am I, and the children God has given me.”2:13 Isaiah 8:18
14Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17For this reason he had to be made like them,2:17 Or like his brothers fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Gargaɗi don a mai da hankali
1Dole mu ƙara mai da hankali sosai ga abubuwan da muka ji, don kada mu kauce. 2Gama in saƙon da aka faɗi ta bakin mala’iku ya zama tabbatacce, kuma kowane ƙeta umarni da rashin biyayya suka karɓi sakamakonsu da ya dace, 3yaya za mu tsira in muka ƙyale irin wannan babban ceto? Wannan ceto, wanda Ubangiji ne ya fara sanar, aka kuma tabbatar mana ta bakin waɗanda suka ji shi. 4Allah shi ma ya shaida ta wurin alamu, abubuwan banmamaki da mu’ujizai iri-iri, da kuma baye-bayen Ruhu Mai Tsarki da aka rarraba bisa ga nufinsa.
An yi Yesu kamar ’yan’uwansa
5Ba ga mala’iku ba ne ya sa su yi mulkin duniya mai zuwa, wanda muke magana a kai ba. 6Amma akwai wani wurin da wani ya shaida cewa,
“Mene ne mutum, da kake tuna da shi,
ɗan mutum da kake kula da shi?
7Ka sa shi ƙasa kaɗan da darajar mala’iku;
ka naɗa shi da ɗaukaka da girma,
8ka kuma sa kome a ƙarƙashin ƙafafunsa.”2.8 Zab 8.4-6
Ta wurin sa kome a ƙarƙashinsa, Allah bai bar wani abu da bai sa a ƙarƙashinsa ba. Duk da haka a yanzu ba mu ga kowane abu a ƙarƙashinsa ba. 9Sai dai muna ganin Yesu, wanda aka mai da shi ƙasa kaɗan da darajar mala’iku, yanzu kuwa an naɗa shi da ɗaukaka da girma domin yă sha wahalar mutuwa, domin ta wurin alherin Allah yă ɗanɗana mutuwa saboda kowa.
10Ta wurin kawo ’ya’ya masu yawa zuwa ga ɗaukaka, ya dace cewa Allah, wanda dominsa da kuma ta wurinsa ne kome yake kasancewa, ya sa tushen cetonsu yă zama cikakke ta wurin shan wahala. 11Da shi wanda yake tsarkake mutane da kuma su waɗanda ake tsarkakewa duk ’yan iyali ɗaya ne. Saboda haka Yesu ba ya kunyan kiransu ’yan’uwansa. 12Ya ce,
“Zan sanar da sunanka ga ’yan’uwana;
a gaban jama’a zan rera yabonka.”2.12 Zab 22.22
13Har wa yau ya ce,
“Zan dogara gare shi.”2.13 Ish 8.17
Ya kuma ce,
“Ga ni, da ’ya’yan da Allah ya ba ni.”2.13 Ish 8.18
14Da yake ’ya’yan suna da nama da jini, shi ma sai ya ɗauki kamanninsu na mutum domin ta wurin mutuwarsa yă hallaka wanda yake riƙe da ikon mutuwa, wato, Iblis 15ya kuma ’yantar da waɗanda dukan rayuwarsu tsoron mutuwa ya riƙe su cikin bauta. 16Gama tabbatacce ba mala’iku ne ya taimaka ba, sai dai zuriyar Ibrahim. 17Saboda wannan dole a mai da shi kamar ’yan’uwansa ta kowace hanya, domin yă zama babban firist mai aminci da mai jinƙai cikin hidima ga Allah, yă kuma miƙa hadayar sulhu saboda zunuban mutane. 18Domin shi kansa ya sha wahala sa’ad da aka gwada shi, yana iya taimakon waɗanda ake yi wa gwaji.
