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Exaltation through Abasement

Now God[a] did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.(A) But someone has testified somewhere,

“What are humans that you are mindful of them[b]
    or mortals that you care for them?[c](B)
You have made them for a little while lower[d] than the angels;
    you have crowned them with glory and honor,[e]
    subjecting all things under their feet.”

Now in subjecting all things to them, God[f] left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,(C) but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[g] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God[h] he might taste death for everyone.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.5 Gk he
  2. 2.6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
  3. 2.6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
  4. 2.7 Or them only a little lower
  5. 2.7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
  6. 2.8 Gk he
  7. 2.9 Or who was made a little lower
  8. 2.9 Other ancient authorities read apart from God