New International Reader's Version NIRV
Wycliffe WYC
1 In the past, God spoke to our people through the prophets. He spoke at many times. He spoke in different ways.
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God, that spake sometime by prophets in many manners to our fathers, [+Manifold and in many manners sometime God speaking to fathers by prophets,]
2 But in these last days, he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one whom God appointed to receive all things. God made everything through him.
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at the last in these days he hath spoken to us by the Son; whom he hath ordained heir of all things, and by whom he made the worlds.
3 The Son is the gleaming brightness of God's glory. He is the exact likeness of God's being. He uses his powerful word to hold all things together. He provided the way for people to be made pure from sin. Then he sat down at the right hand of the King, the Majesty in heaven.
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Which when also he is the brightness of glory, and [the] figure of his substance, and beareth all things [and bearing all things] by word of his virtue, he maketh purgation of sins, and sitteth on the right half of the majesty in heavens [sitteth on the right half of majesty in high things];
4 So he became higher than the angels. The name he received is more excellent than theirs.
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and so much is made better than angels, by how much he hath inherited a more diverse name [a more different, or excellent, name] before them.
5 God never said to any of the angels, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father." (Psalm 2:7) Or, "I will be his Father. And he will be my Son." (2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13)
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For to which of the angels said God any time, Thou art my Son, I have engendered thee to day [I have to day gendered thee]? And again, I shall be to him into a Father, and he shall be to me into a Son?
6 God's first and only Son is over all things. When God brings him into the world, he says, "Let all of God's angels worship him." (Deuteronomy 32:43)
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And when again he bringeth in the first begotten Son into the world [And when again he bringeth in the first begotten into the roundness of the earth], he saith, And all the angels of God worship him.
7 Here is something else God says about the angels. "God makes his angels to be like winds. He makes those who serve him to be like flashes of lightning." (Psalm 104:4)
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But he saith to angels [And soothly to angels he saith], He that maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers flame of fire.
8 But here is what he says about the Son. "You are God. Your throne will last for ever and ever. Your kingdom will be ruled by what is right.
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But to the Son he saith, God, thy throne is into the world of world [into the world of worlds]; a rod of equity is the rod of thy realm;
9 You have loved what is right and hated what is evil. So your God has placed you above your companions. He has filled you with joy by pouring the sacred oil on your head." (Psalm 45:6,7)
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thou hast loved rightwiseness, and hatedest wickedness; therefore the God, thy God, anointed thee with oil of joy [therefore God, thy God, anointed thee with oil of gladness, or joy], more than thy fellows.
10 He also says, "Lord, in the beginning you made the earth secure. You placed it on its foundations. The heavens are the work of your hands.
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And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning foundedest the earth, and heavens be works of thine hands;
11 They will pass away. But you remain. They will all wear out like a piece of clothing.
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they shall perish, but thou shalt perfectly dwell; and all shall wax old as a cloak [as a cloth],
12 You will roll them up like a robe. They will be changed as a person changes clothes. But you remain the same. Your years will never end." (Psalm 102:25-27)
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and thou shalt change them as a cloak [as a cloth], and they shall be changed. But thou art the same thyself, and thy years shall not fail.
13 God never said to an angel, "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your control." (Psalm 110:1)
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But to which of the angels said God at any time, Sit thou on my right half, till I put thine enemies a stool of thy feet?
14 All angels are spirits who serve. God sends them to serve those who will receive salvation.
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Whether they all be not serving spirits, sent to serve for them [sent into ministry for them] that take the heritage of health?
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