having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
Parallel translations
- KJV Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
- BSB So He became as far superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is excellent beyond theirs.
- ESV having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
- NKJV having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
- NASB having become so much better than the angels, to the extent that He has inherited a more excellent name than they.
- NLT This shows that the Son is far greater than the angels, just as the name God gave him is greater than their names.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Eph 1:21far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
- 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
- Heb 2:9But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
- Rev 5:11–12I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
- 2 Th 1:7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
- Ps 2:7–8I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
- Col 2:10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
- Col 1:18He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
- Heb 1:9You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
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