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So,  since that is true, we must pay very careful attention to what we have heard  about God’s Son, in order that we do not drift away from it,  as a boat drifts off its course when people do not guide it MET. 
 God’s laws that were given by angels were valid, and God justly punished all who rejected them and all who disobeyed DOU them. 
So, we will certainly not escape  God punishing us if we ignore such a great  message about how God MTY saves us! RHQ This  new message was first spoken by the Lord  Jesus {The Lord  Jesus first spoke this  message}. Then it was confirmed to us by those who heard  what the Lord told them {those who heard  what the Lord told them confirmed it to us}. 
God also confirmed to us  that this message was true by enabling believers to do many things that showed God’s power, to do other miraculous things DOU, and  to do other things by the gifts that the Holy Spirit distributed to them according to what  God desired. 
God has determined that the angels will not rule over everything.  Instead, he has determined that Christ will rule in the new world that  God will  create.  That is the new world about which I am writing. 
Someone spoke to  God about this somewhere  in the Scriptures, saying, ◄No one is worthy enough for you to think about him!/Who is  worthy enough for you to think about him?► RHQ ◄No human is  worthy enough for you to care for him!/Is any human  worthy enough for you to care for him?► RHQ 
 So it is surprising that you have caused people to be for a little while inferior in rank to angels. You have greatly honored DOU them MET, as  kings are honored with a crown. 
You have put everything under people’s control MET. God has determined that people will rule over absolutely everything LIT. But now, at this present time, we perceive that people do not yet have authority over everything. 
But we do know about Jesus,  who truly has authority over everything! Hebrews 2:9b-13 Jesus, for a little while, became inferior  in rank to angels in order to die on behalf of MET everyone. He became inferior when he suffered  and died, as God kindly  planned. But now he has been greatly  honored DOU  by being crowned  as kings are. 
It was fitting that  God make  Jesus ◄perfect/all that God intended him to be►. God was enabling many people who would belong to him MET to share his glory. God  is the one who created all things, and  he is the one for whom all things exist.  He perfected Jesus by causing him to suffer  and die.  Jesus is the one whom  God uses to save people. 
 Jesus is the one who ◄makes people holy/sets people apart for God►, and they all belong to God’s family.  As a result, Christ gladly LIT proclaims them to be  like his own brothers  and sisters. 
 The Psalmist wrote what Christ said to God about us becoming his brothers, in these words: I will proclaim to my brothers how awesome you are (OR, what you ◄ are like/have done►) MTY. I will sing praise to you in the presence of the congregation! 
And a prophet wrote  in another  Scripture passage what Christ said about God, I will trust him. And in another  Scripture passage, Christ said about those who are like his children, I and the ones that God has given me are here. 
So, since those  whom God calls his children are all human beings MTY, Jesus also became a human being  just like them. The devil has the power to cause people  to be afraid to die, but Christ became human in order that by his dying he might make the devil powerless. 
 Jesus did that to free all of us who are like slaves MET all the time we live, because we are  forced to be afraid to die. 
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. 
So,  since he came to help humans, not angels, he had to be made exactly like  us whom he calls his own brothers  and sisters. He wants to be a Supreme Priest who  acts mercifully  to all people and who faithfully does what God wants, so that people who had sinned would be declared no longer guilty. 
 Specifically, he is able to help those/us who are tempted  to sin. He can do that because he suffered, and he was also tempted  to sin like we are tempted to sin.