Hebrews 2:16 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁶ For he does not come to the help of angels, but he comes to the help of the descendants of Abraham.

¹ THE ancestral line of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham: ² Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac was the father of Jacob; Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers; ³ Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (Tamar was their mother); Perez was the father of Hezron; Hezron was the father of Ram; ⁴ Ram was the father of Amminadab; Amminadab was the father of Nahshon; Nahshon was the father of Salmon; ⁵ Salmon was the father of Boaz (Rahab was his mother); Boaz was the father of Obed (Ruth was his mother); ⁶ Jesse was the father of David the King. David was the father of Solomon (his mother had been Uriah's wife); ⁷ Solomon was the father of Rehoboam; Rehoboam was the father of Abijah; Abijah was the father of Asa; ⁸ Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat; Jehoshaphat was the father of Joram; Joram was the father of Uzziah; ⁹ Uzziah was the father of Jotham; Jotham was the father of Ahaz; Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah; ¹⁰ Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh; Manasseh was the father of Amon; Amon was the father of Josiah; ¹¹ Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the Babylonian exile. ¹² After the Babylonian exile, Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel; Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel; ¹³ Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud; Abiud was the father of Eliakim; Eliakim was the father of Azor; ¹⁴ Azor was the father of Sadoc; Sadoc was the father of Achim; Achim was the father of Eliud; ¹⁵ Eliud was the father of Eleazar; Eleazar was the father of Matthan; Matthan was the father of Jacob; ¹⁶ Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. ¹⁷ So there were in all fourteen generations from Abraham to David, and fourteen generations from David to the Babylonian exile, and fourteen generations from the Babylonian exile to the Christ.

²⁵ Circumcision has value if you obey the Law. But if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

¹⁶ Therefore all depends on faith, that it may be of grace, and thus the promise be sure for all his descendants, not only those who are of the Law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us ¹⁷ (as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations"), in the view of the God whom he believed, who makes alive the dead and calls things that are not as if they were. ¹⁸ Abraham, when hope was past, believed in hope so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said to him, "So shall your descendants be"; ¹⁹ and without being weakened in faith he recognized his own body as dead, when he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ Still he did not hesitate through want of faith in the promise of God, but was strong in faith, thus giving glory to God, ²¹ and was fully confident that what God had promised he was able to perform. ²² Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness. ²³ It was not written for his sake only, that it was credited to him, ²⁴ but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited if we believe in him who raised up from the dead Jesus our Lord, ²⁵ who was delivered up on account of our sins and was raised again that we might be accounted righteous.

¹⁶ But the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "and to offsprings," as meaning many, but as if meaning one, "and to your offspring," who is Christ.

²⁹ If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise.

¹⁶ For men swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them the end of all dispute.

¹⁰ For they for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

²⁰ who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of time for your sake