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Hebrews 1:4

having become so much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they. 1 The Son Exalted Above Angels

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

In Context

3who being the radiance of His glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

5For to which of the angels did He ever say: 1 “ You are My Son, 1 today I have begotten You”? And again: 1 “ I will be a Father to Him, 1 and He shall be a Son to Me”?

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Cross References

Ephesians 1:21above every ruler and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the coming age.

Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things He might have the preeminence. 1 Reconciled in Christ

2 Thessalonians 1:7and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels,

Hebrews 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, through the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone. 1 Bringing Many Sons to Glory

Revelation 5:11Then I looked, and I heard as it were the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living beings, and the elders. And the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and a thousand thousands,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 1:2-4

Hebrews Concerning this epistle we must enquire, I. Into the divine authority of it; for this has been questioned by some, whose distempered eyes could not bear the light of it, or whose errors have been confuted by it; such as the Arians, who deny the Godhead and self-existence of Christ; and the Socinians, who deny his satisfaction; but, after all the attempts of such men to disparage this epistle, the divine original of it shines forth with such strong and unclouded rays that he who runs may read it is an… Read the whole commentary →

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