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For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

Instead someone testified somewhere: " What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

You made him lower than the angels for a little while . You crowned him with glory and honor .

You put all things under his control ." For when he put all things under his control , he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control ,

but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while , now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

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

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

" There your fathers tested me and tried me , and they saw my works for forty years .

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses' leadership?

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, " As I swore in my anger , ‘ They will never enter my rest! '" And yet God's works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: " And God rested on the seventh day from all his works ,"

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.