Jesus and Humanity

For he has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about. But someone somewhere has testified:

What is man that you remember him,
or the son of man that you care for him?
You made him lower than the angels
for a short time;
you crowned him with glory and honor[a]
and subjected everything under his feet.[b]

For in subjecting everything to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7 Other mss add and set him over the works of your hands
  2. 2:6–8 Ps 8:4–6 LXX

Jesus is the Source of Our Salvation

For he did not put the coming world we are talking about under the control of angels. Instead, someone has declared somewhere,

“What is man that you should remember him,
    or the son of man that you should care for him?
You made him a little lower than the angels,
    yet you crowned him with glory and honor
and put everything under his feet.”[a]

Now when God[b] put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:8 Cf. Ps 8:5-7 (LXX)
  2. Hebrews 2:8 Lit. he