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Hebrews 2:1-6

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1 That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.
1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
2 The message given to our ancestors by the angels was shown to be true, and those who did not follow it or obey it received the punishment they deserved.
2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
3 How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true.
3 how 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.
4 At the same time God added his witness to theirs by performing all kinds of miracles and wonders and by distributing the gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his will.
4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
5 God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come - the world of which we speak.
5 It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
6 Instead, as it is said somewhere in the Scriptures: "What are human beings, O God, that you should think of them; mere human beings, that you should care for them?
6 But 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?
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