Hebrews 2:4

For God witnessed together by miracles [or by signs], and wonders, and great marvels, and diverse virtues, and partings [or distributions] of the Holy Ghost, by his will. (Because God testified by miracles or signs, and wonders, and great marvels, and various works of power, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his will.)

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In The King James Version

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

In Context

3how shall we escape, if we despise so great an health? (or then how shall we escape, if we despise so great a salvation, or so great a deliverance?) Which, when it had taken beginning to be told out by the Lord, of them that heard (him), (it) is confirmed into us.

5But not to (the) angels God subjected the world that is to coming, of which we speak. [Forsooth not to angels God subjected the roundness of the earth to come, of which we speak.]

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Cross References

Daniel 4:35And all the dwellers of earth be areckoned into nought at him; for by his will he doeth, both in the hosts of heaven, and in the dwellers of earth, and none is that (can) against-standeth his hand, and saith to him, Why didest thou so? (And all the inhabitants of the earth be reckoned as nothing by him; for he doeth by his will, both to the armies of heaven, and to the inhabitants of the earth, and there is no one who can stand against his power, and can say to him, Why didest thou so?)

John 4:48Therefore Jesus said to him, But ye see tokens, and great wonders, ye believe not. (And Jesus said to him, Unless ye see signs or miracles, and great wonders, ye will not believe.)

Acts 2:32God raised this Jesus, to whom we all be witnesses.

Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from death [or whom God raised from (the) dead], in this (man) [or in him], this man standeth whole before you.

Acts 19:11And God did virtues not small [or little] by the hand of Paul, (And God did works of power or miracles, that were not small or insignificant, by Paul’s hand,)

1 Corinthians 12:4And diverse graces there be, (or And there be many different gifts or blessings), but it is all one Spirit;

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 2:2-5

The Danger of Neglect. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and… Read the whole commentary →

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