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# Hebrews 2

Hebrews 2 is chapter 2 of 13 in the Letter to the Hebrews. Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The transgression of the precepts of the Son of God is far more condemnable than of those of the Old Testament given by angels.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hebrews 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. For this reason, it is necessary for us to observe more thoroughly the things that we have heard, lest we let them slip away.
2. For if a word that was spoken through the Angels has been made firm, and every transgression and disobedience has received the recompense of a just retribution,
3. in what way might we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? For though initially it had begun to be described by the Lord, it was confirmed among us by those who heard him,
4. with God testifying to it by signs and wonders, and by various miracles, and by the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, in accord with his own will.
5. For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.
6. But someone, in a certain place, has testified, saying: “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man, that you visit him?
7. You have reduced him to a little less than the Angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, and you have set him over the works of your hands.
8. You have subjected all things under his feet.” For in as much as he has subjected all things to him, he has left nothing not subject to him. But in the present time, we do not yet perceive that all things have been made subject to him.
9. Yet we understand that Jesus, who was reduced to a little less than the Angels, was crowned with glory and honor because of his Passion and death, in order that, by the grace of God, he might taste death for all.
10. For it was fitting for him, because of whom and through whom all things exist, who had led many children into glory, to complete the authorship of their salvation through his Passion.
11. For he who sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all from One. For this reason, he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:
12. “I will announce your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.”
13. And again: “I will be faithful in him.” And again: “Behold, I and my children, whom God has given to me.”
14. Therefore, because children have a common flesh and blood, he himself also, in like manner, has shared in the same, so that through death, he might destroy him who held the dominion of death, that is, the devil,
15. and so that he might free those who, through the fear of death, had been condemned to servitude throughout their entire life.
16. For at no time did he take hold of the Angels, but instead he took hold of the offspring of Abraham.
17. Therefore, it is fitting for him to be made similar to his brothers in all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful High Priest before God, in order that he might bring forgiveness to the offenses of the people.
18. For in as much as he himself has suffered and has been tempted, he also is able to assist those who are tempted.

## Hebrews 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Propterea abundantius oportet observare nos ea quæ audivimus, ne forte pereffluamus.
2. Si enim qui per angelos dictus est sermo, factus est firmus, et omnis prævaricatio, et inobedientia accepit justam mercedis retributionem:
3. quomodo nos effugiemus si tantam neglexerimus salutem? quæ cum initium accepisset enarrari per Dominum ab eis, qui audierunt, in nos confirmata est,
4. contestante Deo signis et portentis, et variis virtutibus, et Spiritus Sancti distributionibus secundum suam voluntatem.
5. Non enim angelis subjecit Deus orbem terræ futurum, de quo loquimur.
6. Testatus est autem in quodam loco quis, dicens: Quid est homo quod memor es ejus, aut filius hominis quoniam visitas eum?
7. Minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis: gloria et honore coronasti eum: et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.
8. Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus. In eo enim quod omnia ei subjecit, nihil dimisit non subjectum ei. Nunc autem necdum videmus omnia subjecta ei.
9. Eum autem, qui modico quam angeli minoratus est, videmus Jesum propter passionem mortis, gloria et honore coronatum: ut, gratia Dei, pro omnibus gustaret mortem.
10. Decebat enim eum, propter quem omnia, et per quem omnia, qui multos filios in gloriam adduxerat, auctorem salutis eorum per passionem consummare.
11. Qui enim sanctificat, et qui sanctificantur, ex uno omnes. Propter quam causam non confunditur fratres eos vocare, dicens:
12. Nuntiabo nomen tuum fratribus meis: in medio ecclesiæ laudabo te.
13. Et iterum: Ego ero fidens in eum. Et iterum: Ecce ego, et pueri mei, quos dedit mihi Deus.
14. Quia ergo pueri communicaverunt carni, et sanguini, et ipse similiter participavit eisdem: ut per mortem destrueret eum qui habebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum:
15. et liberaret eos qui timore mortis per totam vitam obnoxii erant servituti.
16. Nusquam enim angelos apprehendit, sed semen Abrahæ apprehendit.
17. Unde debuit per omnia fratribus similari, ut misericors fieret, et fidelis pontifex ad Deum, ut repropitiaret delicta populi.
18. In eo enim, in quo passus est ipse et tentatus, potens est et eis, qui tentantur, auxiliari.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 156: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 624: Jesus Christ Was Buried ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 609: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2602: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2777: "We Dare To Say" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2795: "Who Art in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 635: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 407: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1520: The Effects of the Celebration of This Sacrament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 827: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: By suffering, Christ was to enter into his glory, Luke 24. 26, which the apostle here calls being made perfect.
- Verse 16: That is, he never took upon him the nature of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jan 12, 2027: Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hebrews 2:5-12
- Wed, Jan 13, 2027: Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hebrews 2:14-18
- Tue, Feb 2, 2027: Presentation of the Lord — Second Reading, Hebrews 2:14-18
- Sun, Oct 3, 2027 (computed): Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, Hebrews 2:9-11

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).