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New Testament Reading - Greater than angels

¹Long ago God spoke in many different ways to our fathers through the prophets, in visions, dreams, and even face to face,^a telling them little by little about his plans.

²But now in these days He has spoken to us through his Son to whom He has given everything and through whom He made the world and everything there is.

³God’s Son shines out with God’s glory, and all that God’s Son is and does marks him as God. He regulates the universe by the mighty power of his command. He is the one who died to cleanse us and clear our record of all sin, and then sat down in highest honor beside the great God of heaven.

⁴Thus he became far greater than the angels, as proved by the fact that his name “Son of God,” which was passed on to him from his Father, is far greater than the names and titles of the angels.

⁷God speaks of his angels as messengers swift as the wind and as servants made of flaming fire.

⁷For though you made him lower than the angels for a little while, now you have crowned him with glory and honor. ⁸And you have put him in complete charge of everything there is. Nothing is left out.”

We have not yet seen all of this take place, ⁹but we do see Jesus—who for a while was a little lower than the angels — crowned now by God with glory and honor because he suffered death for us. Yes, because of God’s great kindness, Jesus tasted death for everyone in all the world.

¹⁰And it was right and proper that God, who made everything for his own glory, should allow Jesus to suffer, for in doing this he was bringing vast multitudes of God’s people to heaven; for his suffering made Jesus a perfect Leader, one fit to bring them into their salvation.

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2. Literally, “this day I have begotten you.”