⁹ but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower^[a] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God^[b] he might taste death for everyone.^(A)

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make humans^[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth^[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”^(A)

¹⁶ For it is clear that he did not come to help angels but the descendants of Abraham.

²⁰ He was destined before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.^{(A) 21} Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.