Hebrews 2:1-4
THE NEED OF CHEERFUL OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. The excellence of the Gospel-message:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NEED OF CHEERFUL OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. The excellence of the Gospel-message:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE WE OUGHT TO GIVE THE MORE EARNEST HEED TO THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE HEARD, LEST AT ANY TIME WE SHOULD LET THEM SLIP.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THE WORD SPOKEN BY ANGELS WAS STEADFAST, AND EVERY TRANSGRESSION AND DISOBEDIENCE RECEIVED A JUST RECOMPENSE OF REWARD,... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION, WHICH AT THE FIRST BEGAN TO BE SPOKEN BY THE LORD, AND WAS CONFIRMED UNTO US BY THEM THAT HEARD HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD ALSO BEARING THEM WITNESS, BOTH WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS, AND WITH DIVERS MIRACLES, AND GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WILL? The writer, in the first chapter, has proved the superiority of the Son to the angels, showing Him to be the eternal and almighty Creator of the universe, equ... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR UNTO THE ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION THE WORLD TO COME, WHEREOF WE SPEAK.... [ Continue Reading ]
A further argument for the superiority of Christ's word:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE TESTIFIED, SAYING, WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM, OR THE SON OF MAN THAT THOU VISITEST HIM?... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; THOU CROWNEDST HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND DIDST SET HIM OVER THE WORKS OF THY HANDS;... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. FOR IN THAT HE PUT ALL IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIM, HE LEFT NOTHING THAT IS NOT PUT UNDER HIM. BUT NOW WE SEE NOT YET ALL THINGS PUT UNDER HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE SEE JESUS, WHO WAS MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS FOR THE SUFFERING OF DEATH, CROWNED WITH GLORY AND HONOR, THAT HE, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, SHOULD TASTE DEATH FOR EVERY MAN. In addition to the first proof for the superiority of Christ and of His Gospel the inspired writer now brings anoth... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT BECAME HIM, FOR WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, IN BRINGING MANY SONS UNTO GLORY, TO MAKE THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR SALVATION PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The humiliation of the Son justified:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR BOTH HE THAT SANCTIFIETH AND THEY WHO ARE SANCTIFIED ARE ALL OF ONE; FOR WHICH CAUSE HE IS NOT ASHAMED TO CALL THEM BRETHREN,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, I WILL DECLARE THY NAME UNTO MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CHURCH WILL I SING PRAISE UNTO THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN, I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM. AND AGAIN, BEHOLD, I AND THE CHILDREN WHICH GOD HATH GIVEN ME. It was to be expected that human reason might register an objection at this point, not understanding the necessity for such a humiliation, for Christ's suffering and death. But the answer is plain:... [ Continue Reading ]
Forasmuch, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same, that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DELIVERANCE EFFECTED BY CHRIST. Hebrews 2:14... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DELIVER THEM WHO THROUGH FEAR OF DEATH WERE ALL THEIR LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR, VERILY, HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE IN ALL THINGS IT BEHOOVED HIM TO BE MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING TO GOD, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED, BEING TEMPTED, HE IS ABLE TO SUCCOR THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED. This paragraph is closely connected in thought with the preceding argument, since it concludes the proof for the necessity of Christ's vicarious work. It was as brethren that Christ acknowledged the beli... [ Continue Reading ]