Hebrews 2:7

2:7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.

You crowned him with glory and honor. ¹ 

Hebrews 6:13

6:13 Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

Hebrews 9:16

9:16 For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven. ² 

Hebrews 10:10

10:10 By his will ³  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:23

10:23 And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

Hebrews 11:40

11:40 For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us. ⁴ 

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¹ tc Several witnesses, many of them early and important (א A C D* P Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat co), have at the end of v 7, “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.” Other mss, not quite as impressive in weight, lack the words (Ì⁴⁶ B D² Ï). In spite of the impressive external evidence for the longer reading, it is most likely a scribal addition to conform the text of Hebrews to Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX). Conformity of a NT quotation of the OT to the LXX was a routine scribal activity, and can hardly be in doubt here as to the cause of the longer reading.

² tn Grk “there is a necessity for the death of the one who made it to be proven.”

³ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁴ tn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that they would not be made perfect without us.”