Hebrews 1:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs.^[a]

The Son Is Superior to Angels

⁵For to what angel did God ever say,

“Thou art my Son,
today I have begotten thee”?

Or again,

“I will be to him a father,
and he shall be to me a son”?

⁶And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says,

“Let all God’s angels worship him.”

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Footnotes

1.1-4 A contrast between the progressive and piecemeal revelation of the old dispensation and the complete revelation of the new given by a single representative—no mere prophet but the Son of God himself.

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