Book of Common Prayer
5 It is not to the angels that he has put in subjection the world to come, of which we speak. 6 But one in a certain place witnesses, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? 7 After you had for a season made him lower than the angels, you crowned him with honour and glory, and have set him above the works of your hands. 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.
In that he put all things under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. 9 Nevertheless, we do not yet see all things subdued, but we see him who was made less than the angels. We see that it was Jesus who is crowned with glory and honour for the suffering of death: that he, by the grace of God, was to taste of death for all men.
10 For it was fitting for him, for whom all things are and by whom all things are, in accordance with the way that he brought many sons to glory, to make the Lord of their salvation perfect through suffering.
9 that was the true light, who lights all men that come into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and yet the world knew him not.
11 He came among his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave power to be the children of God, in that they believed on his name – 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor yet of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we saw the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father, which word was full of grace and truth.
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