Hebrews 2:6-8

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⁶But someone has testified somewhere,

“What are human beings that you are mindful of them,^[a]
    or mortals, that you care for them?^[b]
⁷You have made them for a little while lower^[c] than the angels;
    you have crowned them with glory and honor,^[d]
⁸    subjecting all things under their feet.”

Now in subjecting all things to them, God^[e] left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them,

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Footnotes

Hebrews 2:6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
Hebrews 2:6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
Hebrews 2:7 Or them only a little lower
Hebrews 2:7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
Hebrews 2:8 Gk he

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