Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 was weak man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? or the son of the earthborn, that thou shouldst set him in charge? 5 That thou shouldst make him little less than messengers of God, with glory and honour, shouldst crown him? 6 Shouldst give him dominion over the works of thy hands, - All things, shouldst have put 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 bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast - and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land.

Genesis 2:7

So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life - and man became a living soul.

Hebrews 2:7

Thou hast made him less, some little, than messengers, With glory and honour, hast thou crowned him, - And hast set him over the works of thy hands;

Hebrews 2:9

But, Jesus, made some little less than messengers, we do behold: by reason of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, to the end that, by favour of God, in behalf of every one, he might taste of death.

2 Samuel 14:29

Then sent Absolom unto Joab, to send him unto the king, but he would not come to him, - so he sent yet a second time, but he would not come.

Job 4:18-20

Lo! in his own servants, he trusteth not, and, his own messengers, he chargeth with error:

Psalm 21:3-5

For thou wilt come to meet him, with the blessings of goodness, Thou wilt set on his head, a crown of pure gold.

Psalm 45:1-3

Overflowed hath my heart, with an excellent theme, I will recite my poem concerning the king, Be, my tongue, like the pen of a scribe who is skilled.

Psalm 45:6

Thy throne, O God, is to times age-abiding and beyond, A sceptre of equity, is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Psalm 103:4

Who redeemeth, from destruction, thy life, Who crowneth thee, with lovingkindness and compassion:

Psalm 103:20

Bless Yahweh, ye messengers of his, - Heroes of vigour, doing his word, To hearken again to the voice of his word;

John 13:31-32

When, therefore, he had gone out, Jesus saith - Just now, was, the Son of Man, glorified, and, God, was glorified in him;

Ephesians 1:21

Over-above all principality, authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one,

Philippians 2:7-11

But, himself, emptied, taking, a servant's form, coming to be, in men's likeness;

Hebrews 2:16

For, not surely of messengers, is he laying hold, but, of Abraham's seed, he is laying hold.

1 Peter 1:20-21

Foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, but made manifest at a last stage of the times, for the sake of you

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