Hebrews 1
14 verses
The opening announces God's final word delivered in his Son, declaring the radiance of his glory (apaugasma—the shining forth of divine brilliance) and the exact imprint (charaktēr—engraved copy, die-stamp) of God's nature, establishing Christ's absolute correspondence to and manifestation of deity. Christ's purification of sins—a singular, completed action—followed by his exaltation to the right hand of the Majesty establishes the Christological framework for the entire epistle: incarnate redemption and heavenly intercession. The catena of OT quotations—from Psalm 2, 2 Samuel 7, Deuteronomy 32 (LXX), Psalm 104, Psalm 45, Psalm 102, and Psalm 110—constructs a scriptural argument for Christ's superiority to angels, each quotation positioning the Son as recipient of worship, inheritor of all things, the one whose kingdom endures eternally. The rhetorical force moves from Christ's nature through his work to his exaltation, making each dimension cumulatively demonstrative of his incomparability to all created orders. Angels are commanded to worship him, a claim that inverts the angelology of earlier Judaism and declares the Son's transcendence of cosmic hierarchies. The opening thus announces the letter's polemical aim: to establish Christ's supremacy against any competing theological system that would diminish his status or mediate his function through lesser powers.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
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Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
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Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
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Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
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For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
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And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
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And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
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But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
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Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
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They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
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And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
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But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
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