FIRST READING* Jesus had to become like everyone else in everything so that people could be cleansed from their sins A Reading from the Book of Hebrews 2:14-18

Daily Reading for Wednesday January 13, 2021 

*FIRST READING* 

Jesus had to become like everyone else in everything so that people could be cleansed from their sins 

A Reading from the Book of Hebrews 2:14-18 

Since all the children share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the devil,

and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself the line of Abraham.

It was essential that he should in this way be made completely like his brothers so that he could become a compassionate and trustworthy high priest for their relationship to God, able to expiate the sins of the people.

For the suffering he himself passed through while being put to the test enables him to help others when they are being put to the test. 

*The Word of the Lord* 

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