Hebrews 2:16 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

English ASV

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

English Amplified

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.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For it is clear that he does not reach out to help angels, but to help Abraham’s offspring.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For he does not indeed take hold of angels [by the hand], but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

English EASY 2024

It is clear that Jesus did not come to help the angels. He came to help people who are from Abraham's family.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Clearly, it is not angels that Jesus helps. He helps the people who are from Abraham.

For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

For it is clear that it is not the angels that he helps. Instead, he helps the descendants of Abraham.

English God's Word - GW 1995

So Jesus helps Abraham's descendants rather than helping angels.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For it is clear that He does not reach out to help angels, but to help Abraham's offspring.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the seed of Abraham.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For surely He does not help the angels, but He helps the seed of Abraham.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Surely he did not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham;

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

It is certainly Abraham's children that he helps. He doesn't help angels.

English NIV

For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.

English NKJ 1982

For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.

English NLT

We all know that Jesus came to help the descendants of Abraham, not to help the angels.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For it is clear that he didn’t do this for the angels, but for all the sons and daughters of Abraham.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

We all know he did not come as an angel but as a human being—yes, a Jew.

English Tyndale 1537

For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh he on him.

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