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Hebrews 2:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Hebrews 2:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
6 But someone has testified somewhere,
“What are human beings that you are mindful of them,[a]
or mortals, that you care for them?[b]
7 You have made them for a little while lower[c] than the angels;
you have crowned them with glory and honor,[d]
8 subjecting all things under their feet.”
Now in subjecting all things to them, God[e] left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,
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- Hebrews 2:6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
- Hebrews 2:6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
- Hebrews 2:7 Or them only a little lower
- Hebrews 2:7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
- Hebrews 2:8 Gk he
Hebrews 2:6-8
New International Version
Hebrews 2:6-8
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6 But there is a place where someone(A) has testified:
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?(B)
7 You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;
you crowned them with glory and honor
8 and put everything under their feet.”[b][c](C)
In putting everything under them,[d] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[e] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[f]
Footnotes
- Hebrews 2:7 Or them for a little while
- Hebrews 2:8 Psalm 8:4-6
- Hebrews 2:8 Or 7 You made him a little lower than the angels;/ you crowned him with glory and honor/ 8 and put everything under his feet.”
- Hebrews 2:8 Or him
- Hebrews 2:8 Or him
- Hebrews 2:8 Or him
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