Verse List for HEB 2:16

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) You can be certain that it’s not God’s messengers that he’s helped, but rather Abraham’s descendants.

OET-LV For/Because not assuredly of_the_messengers he _is _taking _hold, but of_the_seed of _Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) he _is _taking _hold.

ULT For of course he does not take hold of angels, but he takes hold of the offspring of Abraham,

UST Jesus became a human being, because he came to help those who belong to Abraham, the ancestor of the Israelites, not to help spiritual beings, as you know.

BSB For surely [it is] not [the] angels He helps, but [the] descendants of Abraham.

MSB For surely [it is] not [the] angels He helps, but [the] descendants of Abraham.

BLB For surely He helps not the angels, but He helps the seed of Abraham.

AICNT For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.

OEB It was not, surely, to the help of the angels that Jesus came, but to the help of the descendants of Abraham.

WEBBE & WMBB For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring[fn] of Abraham.

NET For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

LSV for doubtless, He does not lay hold of messengers, but He lays hold of [the] seed of Abraham,

FBV Of course it's not angels he's concerned about; he's concerned to help the children of Abraham.

TCNT For surely it is not angels that he helps, but the descendants of Abraham.

T4T Because Jesus became a human being, it is not angels whom he wants to help. No, it is we who trust God as Abraham did whom he wants to help.

LEB For surely he is not concerned with angels, but he is concerned with the descendants of Abraham.

BBE For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

Moff (For of course it is not angels that he succours, it is the offspring of Abraham.)

Wymth For assuredly it is not to angels that He is continually reaching a helping hand, but it is to the descendants of Abraham.

ASV For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he giveth help to the seed of Abraham.

DRA For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

YLT for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

Drby For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand], but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

RV For verily not of angels doth he take hold, but he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham.
(For verily/truly not of angels doeth/does he take hold, but he taketh/takes hold of the seed of Abraham.)

SLT For certainly he lays not hold of angels; but of the seed of Abraham he lays hold.

Wbstr For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

KJB-1769 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
(For verily/truly he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.)

KJB-1611 For verely he [fn]tooke not on him the nature of Angels: but he tooke on him the seed of Abraham.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps For he in no place taketh on hym the Angels: but the seede of Abraham taketh he on hym.
(For he in no place taketh/takes on him the Angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh/takes he on him.)

Gnva For he in no sort tooke on him the Angels nature, but hee tooke on him the seede of Abraham.
(For he in no sort took on him the Angels nature, but he took on him the seed of Abraham.)

Cvdl For he in no place taketh on him the angels, but ye sede of Abraham tabeth he on him.
(For he in no place taketh/takes on him the angels, but ye/you_all seed of Abraham tabeth he on him.)

TNT For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seede of Abraham taketh he on him.
(For he in no place taketh/takes on him the angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh/takes he on him.)

Wycl And he took neuere aungelis, but he took the seed of Abraham.
(And he took never angels, but he took the seed of Abraham.)

Luth Denn er nimmt nirgend die Engel an sich, sondern den Samen Abrahams nimmt er an sich.
(Because he takes nowhere the angel at/to itself/yourself/themselves, rather the seed(s) Abraham’s takes he at/to itself/yourself/themselves.)

ClVg Nusquam enim angelos apprehendit, sed semen Abrahæ apprehendit.[fn]
(Nusquam because messenger/angels apprehends, but seed Abraham apprehends.)

SR-GNT Οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται. ‡

UGNT οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται.

SBL-GNT οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται.

RP-GNT Οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται.

TC-GNT οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἁβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται.