MODERN LITERAL VERSION

2:1 Because of this, we ought to take-heed even-more to the things which were heard, lest we might drift away.
2:2 For* if the word spoken through the messengers became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience* received a just reward;
2:3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so-great a salvation, having received it in the beginning when spoken through the Lord, which was confirmed to us by those who heard it?
2:4 God was testifying together with them, both by signs and by wonders and by various powers and by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.

2:5 For* he did not subject the future inhabited-earth to messengers, about which we are speaking.
2:6 But a certain writer has testified somewhere, saying, ‘What is man, that you remember him? Or the son of man, that you visit him?
2:7 You made him a bit inferior, that is lesser than the messengers. You crowned him with glory and honor.
2:8 You subjected all things underneath his feet.' {Ps. 8:4-6} For* in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But we now do not yet see all things subjected to him.
2:9 But we see Jesus who has been made a bit inferior, that is lesser than the messengers, crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of the death he underwent,*that by the grace of God he should taste of death on behalf of everyone.
2:10 For* it was suitable for him, because whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.
2:11 For* both he who is sanctifying and those who are sanctified are all from one. Because of which cause, he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
2:12 saying, ‘I will proclaim your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation* I will sing hymns to you.' {Ps. 22:22}
2:13 And again, ‘I will have confidence in him.' And again, ‘Behold, here I am and the children whom God has given me.' {Ps. 18:2, 2Sam. 22. 3, Is. 8:17, Is. 8:18}
2:14 Therefore since the children have shared in flesh and blood, in like-manner he partook of the same; in order that through death, he might do-away-with the one who had the dominion of death, that is the Devil;
2:15 and he might set-free those, as many as were in fear of death, who were liable to bondage throughout all their life.
2:16 For* surely he does not help messengers, but he helps the seed of Abraham.
2:17 Hence he was obligated to have been similar to his brethren in all things, that* he might become a merciful and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God, *that* he should make atonement for the sins of the people.
2:18 For* in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.