having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?

And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”

Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”

And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

The Founder of Salvation

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.