Hebrews 1

God Spoke Through His Son

1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets many times and in many different ways.2 But now in these last days God has spoken to us through his Son. God has chosen his Son to own all things, and through him he made the world.3 The Son reflects the glory of God and shows exactly what God is like. He holds everything together with his powerful word. When the Son made people clean from their sins, he sat down at the right side of God, the Great One in heaven.

4 The Son became much greater than the angels, and God gave him a name that is much greater than theirs.

5 This is because God never said to any of the angels,
“You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.” t
Nor did God say of any angel,
“I will be his Father, and he will be my Son.” t

6 And when God brings his firstborn Son into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.” 

7 This is what God said about the angels:
“God makes his angels become like winds. He makes his servants become like flames of fire.” t

8 But God said this about his Son:
“God, your throne will last forever and ever. You will rule your kingdom with fairness.

9 You love right and hate evil, so God has chosen you from among your friends; he has set you apart with much joy.” t

10 God also says,
“Lord, in the beginning you made the earth, and your hands made the skies.

11 They will be destroyed, but you will remain. They will all wear out like clothes.

12 You will fold them like a coat. And, like clothes, you will change them.
But you never change, and your life will never end.” t

13 And God never said this to an angel:
“Sit by me at my right side until I put your enemies under your control.” 14 All the angels are spirits who serve God and are sent to help those who will receive salvation.

Hebrews 1

Introduction: God Has Spoken Fully and Finally in His Son

1 After God spoke long agot in various portionst and in various wayst to our ancestorst through the prophets,2 in these last days he has spoken to us in a son,ts whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.t3 The Son ist the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word,t and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.s

4 Thus he becamet so far better than the angels asts he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

The Son Is Superior to Angels

5 For to which of the angels did Godt ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”?ts And in another placet he says,t “I will be his father and he will be my son.”ts6 But when he again bringst his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”s7 And he sayss of the angels, “He makesthis angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”s

8 but oft the Son he says,t
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,t
and a righteous sceptertis the scepter of your kingdom.

9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
So God, your God, has anointed you over your companionsswith the oil of rejoicing.”s

10 And,
“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord,s
and the heavens are the works of your hands.

11 They will perish, but you continue.
And they will all grow old like a garment,

12 and like a robe you will fold them up
and like a garmentsssthey will be changed,
but you are the same and your years will never run out.”s
13 But to which of the angelss has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?s

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve thoset who will inherit salvation?