Hebrews 1:4

having become so much better than the messengers, as He inherited a more excellent name than them.

Literal Standard Version

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 brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also all things by the saying of His might—having made a cleansing of our sins through Himself, sat down at the right hand of the Greatness in the highest,

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

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Cross References

Ephesians 1:21far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body—the Assembly—who is a beginning, a firstborn out of the dead, that He might become first in all [things] Himself,

2 Thessalonians 1:7and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, with messengers of His power,

Hebrews 2:9and we see Him who was made [a] little less than messengers—Jesus—because of the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste of death for everyone.

Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers around the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders—and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of 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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