Hebrews 2:18
For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 26:37And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad.
John 10:29That which my Father hath given me, is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.
2 Corinthians 12:7And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.
2 Timothy 1:12For which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.
Hebrews 5:2Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
Hebrews 7:25Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 2:15-18
Christ's Incarnation. ( a. d. 62.) 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be… Read the whole commentary →