Hebrews 2:5-7

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Exaltation through Abasement

⁵Now God^[a] did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. ⁶But someone has testified somewhere,

“What are human beings that you are mindful of them,^[b]
or mortals, that you care for them?^[c]
⁷You have made them for a little while lower^[d] than the angels;
you have crowned them with glory and honor,^[e]

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Footnotes

Hebrews 2:5 Gk he
Hebrews 2:6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
Hebrews 2:6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
Hebrews 2:7 Or them only a little lower
Hebrews 2:7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands

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