Hebrews 2:1-8

1 Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.
2 For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,
3 how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,
4 while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will.
5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.
6 But someone has testified somewhere, "What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them?
7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor,
8 subjecting all things under their feet." Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Gk [he]
  • [b]. Gk [What is man that you are mindful of him?]
  • [c]. 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
  • [d]. Or [them only a little lower]
  • [e]. Other ancient authorities add [and set them over the works of your hands]
  • [f]. Gk [he]
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