Hebrews 2:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁶ For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Avraham.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For, as we all know, He [Christ] did not take hold of angels [the fallen angels, to give them a helping and delivering hand], but He did take hold of [the fallen] descendants of Abraham [to reach out to them a helping and delivering hand]. [Isa. 41:8, 9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he giveth help to the seed of Abraham.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Of course, he isn’t trying to help angels, but rather he’s helping Abraham’s descendants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For at no time did he take hold of the Angels, but instead he took hold of the offspring of Abraham.

Hebrews 2:16 Cross References

Genesis 22:18

In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.*

Romans 2:25

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were spoken to Avraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, *To seeds,* as of many, but as of one, *To your seed,* which is Messiah.

Galatians 3:29

If you are Messiah's, then you are Avraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

Hebrews 12:10

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Hebrews 2:15

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful Kohen Gadol in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 6:16

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

1 Peter 1:20

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,