Hebrews 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion.

² 1 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, saying:

³ 2 I will declare thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

⁴ 3 And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.

⁵ 4 Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

⁶ 5 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.

⁷ 6 For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

⁸ 7 Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

⁹ 8 For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

¹⁰ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:

¹¹ Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house.

¹² For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house, hath greater honour than the house.

¹³ For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things, is God.

¹⁴ And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said:

¹⁵ But Christ as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

¹⁶ Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To day if you shall hear his voice,

¹⁷ Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation; in the day of temptation in the desert,

¹⁸ Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,