Hebrews 2:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 6:5 : 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,
  • 2 Pet 3:13 : 13 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

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  • Heb 2:6-10
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    6 But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account?

    7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands:

    8 You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now.

    9 But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.

    10 Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

  • Heb 1:13-14
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    13 But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet?

    14 Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

  • Heb 1:4-8
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    4 Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

    5 To which of the angels did God say at any time, You are my Son, this day I have given you being? or, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son?

    6 And again, when he is sending his only Son into the world, he says, Let all the angels of God give him worship.

    7 And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire:

    8 But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

  • Heb 2:2-4
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    2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

    3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

    4 And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.

  • Ps 8:5-6
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    5 For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

    6 You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;

  • 11 Though the angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not make use of violent language against them before the Lord.

  • 12 And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

  • 4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

  • 22 Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

  • 6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

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    27 For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him.

    28 And when all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself be under him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all.

  • 10 He will give his angels orders to take care of you:

  • Heb 2:15-16
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    15 And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

    16 For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

  • 22 But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

  • 18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

  • 2 But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

  • 18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

  • 40 Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

  • 3 Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?

  • 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

  • 15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • 5 In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

  • 34 For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,

  • 11 For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

  • 14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

  • 22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,

  • 20 Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.

  • Heb 12:25-26
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    25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

    26 Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

  • 2 Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

  • 4 He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

  • 20 For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

  • 53 You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

  • 5 So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

  • 25 When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

  • 6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing: