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5-6 For God never said to any angel, “You are my Son, and today I have given you the honor that goes with that name.”[a] But God said it about Jesus. Another time he said, “I am his Father and he is my Son.” And still another time—when his firstborn Son came to earth—God said, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

God speaks of his angels as messengers swift as the wind and as servants made of flaming fire; but of his Son he says, “Your Kingdom, O God, will last forever and ever; its commands are always just and right.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 1:5 today I have given you the honor that goes with that name, literally, “this day I have begotten you.”

And again, when God brings his firstborn(A) into the world,(B) he says,

“Let all God’s angels worship him.”[a](C)

In speaking of the angels he says,

“He makes his angels spirits,
    and his servants flames of fire.”[b](D)

But about the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;(E)
    a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 1:6 Deut. 32:43 (see Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint)
  2. Hebrews 1:7 Psalm 104:4