Hebrews 2:5-9
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Exaltation through Abasement
5 Now God[a] did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere,
‘What are human beings that you are mindful of them,[b]
or mortals, that you care for them?[c]
7 You have made them for a little while lower[d] than the angels;
you have crowned them with glory and honour,[e]
8 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, 9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[g] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God[h] he might taste death for everyone.
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- Hebrews 2:5 Gk he
- Hebrews 2:6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
- Hebrews 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
- Hebrews 2:7 Or them only a little lower
- Hebrews 2:7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
- Hebrews 2:8 Gk he
- Hebrews 2:9 Or who was made a little lower
- Hebrews 2:9 Other ancient authorities read apart from God
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