Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For thou have made him but little lower than [heavenly] agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

New American Standard Bible

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!

King James Version

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Holman Bible

You made him little less than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.

International Standard Version

You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.

American Standard Version

For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

Amplified


Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Bible in Basic English

For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

Darby Translation

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt diminish him a little more than the messengers, and thou wilt surround him with glory and honor.

King James 2000

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and [with] glory and [with] majesty you crowned him.

Modern King James verseion

For You have made him lack a little from God, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou madest him lower than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship.

NET Bible

and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;

New Heart English Bible

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

The Emphasized Bible

That thou shouldst make him little less than messengers of God, with glory and honour, shouldst crown him?

Webster

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

World English Bible

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

Youngs Literal Translation

And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

References

Context Readings

God's Glory, Man's Dignity

4 what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him? 5 For thou have made him but little lower than [heavenly] agents, and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.


Cross References

Genesis 1:26-27

And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

Genesis 2:7

And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Hebrews 2:7

Thou made him a little something less than the heavenly agents. Thou crowned him with glory and honor.

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the heavenly agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

2 Samuel 14:29

Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. And he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

Job 4:18-20

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly.

Psalm 21:3-5

For thou meet him with the blessings of goodness. Thou set a crown of fine gold on his head.

Psalm 45:1-3

My heart overflows with a good matter. I speak the things which I have made concerning the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 45:6

Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of straightness is the scepter of thy kingdom.

Psalm 103:4

who redeems thy life from destruction, who crowns thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,

Psalm 103:20

Bless LORD, ye his [heavenly] agents, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, hearkening to the voice of his word.

John 13:31-32

When he went out, Jesus says, Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

Ephesians 1:21

far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming.

Philippians 2:7-11

But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.

Hebrews 2:16

For he certainly did not embrace heavenly agents, but he embraced the seed of Abraham.

1 Peter 1:20-21

who was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you.

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