Parallel Verses

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.

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 art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him? 5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6 Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast 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 fowl of the air and over the beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.

Genesis 2:7

And the 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 didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

Hebrews 2:9

But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

2 Samuel 14:29

Therefore, Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him; and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.

Job 4:18-20

Behold, he put no trust in his slaves, and his angels he charged with folly.

Psalm 21:3-5

For thou givest him beforehand the blessings of goodness; thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

Psalm 45:1-3

My heart is overflowing with a good word; I speak of the things which I have done concerning the king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 45:6

Thy throne, O God, is eternal and for ever, the rod of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Psalm 103:4

who redeems thy life from destruction; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

Psalm 103:20

Bless the LORD, ye his angels, valiant and strong, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

John 13:31-32

Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man clarified, and God is clarified in him.

Ephesians 1:21

far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come,

Philippians 2:7-11

but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men,

Hebrews 2:16

For verily he did not take the angels, but he took the seed of Abraham.

1 Peter 1:20-21

already ordained from before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for love of you,

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