^13 (A)He also says, “I will put my trust in God.” And he also says, “Here I am with the children that God has given me.”

¹⁴ Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death, ¹⁵ and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death.