14. 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:
15. And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.
16. For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.
17. 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.
18. For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.