Hebrews 2:7

You made man a little lower than the angels; 1 you crowned him with glory and honor. + 2:7 Some older version add, and you have put him over the works of your hands . 1

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In The King James Version

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

In Context

6Instead, someone has somewhere testified, saying, 1 “What is man, that you are mindful of him? 1 Or a son of man, that you care for him? 1

8You put everything in subjection under his feet.” For it was to him that God has subjected all things. He did not leave anything not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

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Cross References

Psalms 8:5Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings 1 and have crowned them with glory and honor. 1

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 2:6-10

Design of Christ's Sufferings. ( a. d. 62.) 5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left… Read the whole commentary →

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