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

The Son’s Humiliation and Suffering

For he did not subject to angels the world to come, about which we are speaking. But someone testified somewhere, saying,

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

For in subjecting all things,[c] he left nothing that was not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:7 Several important manuscripts add “and placed him over the works of your hands” to the end of v. 7
  2. Hebrews 2:8 A quotation from Ps 8:4–6
  3. Hebrews 2:8 Some manuscripts have “subjecting all things to him”