For there is one God(A) and one mediator(B) between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,(C)

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For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

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17 For this reason he had to be made like them,[a](A) fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful(B) and faithful high priest(C) in service to God,(D) and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:17 Or like his brothers

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

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But when the set time had fully come,(A) God sent his Son,(B) born of a woman,(C) born under the law,(D)

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But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

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to redeem(A) those under the law, that we might receive adoption(B) to sonship.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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21 For since death came through a man,(A) the resurrection of the dead(B) comes also through a man.

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21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

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Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?(A) By no means!

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15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

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19 I am using an example from everyday life(A) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness(B) leading to holiness.

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19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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