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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. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of[c] God he might experience[d] death for everyone.

10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering as part of his plan to glorify many children, 11 because both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have the same Father.[e] That is why Jesus[f] is not ashamed to call them brothers 12 when he says, “I will announce your name to my brothers. I will praise you within the congregation.”[g] 13 And again, “I will trust him.”[h] And again, “I am here with the children God has given me.”[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:8 Cf. Ps 8:5-7 (LXX)
  2. Hebrews 2:8 Lit. he
  3. Hebrews 2:9 Other mss. read so that apart from
  4. Hebrews 2:9 Lit. taste
  5. Hebrews 2:11 Lit. are all of one
  6. Hebrews 2:11 Lit. he
  7. Hebrews 2:12 Cf. Ps 22:22
  8. Hebrews 2:13 Cf. Isa 8:17 (LXX)
  9. Hebrews 2:13 Cf. Isa 8:18