Hebrews 1
God Has Spoken to Us Through His Son
1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors at many different times and in many different ways through the prophets.2 In these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. God made his Son responsible for everything. His Son is the one through whom God made the universe.
3 His Son is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact likeness of God’s being. He holds everything together through his powerful words. After he had cleansed people from their sins, he received the highest position, the one next to the Father in heaven.
God’s Son Is Superior to the Angels
4 The Son has become greater than the angels since he has been given a name that is superior to theirs.
5 God never said to any of his angels,
“You are my Son.Today I have become your Father.”And God never said to any of his angels,“I will be his Father,and he will be my Son.”6 When God was about to send his firstborn Son into the world, he said,“All of God’s angels must worship him.”7 God said about the angels,“He makes his messengers winds.He makes his servants flames of fire.”8 But God said about his Son,“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.The scepter in your kingdom is a scepter for justice.9 You have loved what is right and hated what is wrong.That is why God, your God,anointed you, rather than your companions, with the oil of joy.”10 God also said,“Lord, in the beginning you laid the foundation of the earth.With your own hands you made the heavens.11 They will come to an end, but you will live forever.They will all wear out like clothes.12 They will be taken off like a coat.You will change them like clothes.But you remain the same, and your life will never end.13 But God never said to any of the angels,“Sit in the highest position in heavenuntil I make your enemies your footstool.”14 What are all the angels? They are spirits sent to serve those who are going to receive salvation.
Hebrews 1
1 God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,2 hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;3 who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;4 having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?
6 And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds, And his ministers a flame a fire:
8 but of the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
13 But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?