Letter to the Hebrews 1

¹ At various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but

² in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he made everything there is.

³ He is the radiant light of God’s glory and the perfect copy of his nature, sustaining the universe by his powerful command; and now that he has destroyed the defilement of sin, he has gone to take his place in heaven at the right hand of divine Majesty.

⁴ So he is now as far above the angels as the title which he has inherited is higher than their own name.

⁵ God has never said to any angel: You are my Son, today I have become your father;[*a] or: I will be a father to him and he a son to me.[*b]

⁶ Again, when he brings the First-born into the world, he says: Let all the angels of God worship him.[*c]

⁷ About the angels, he says: He makes his angels winds and his servants flames of fire,[*d]

⁸ but to his Son he says: God, your throne shall last for ever and ever; and: his royal sceptre is the sceptre of virtue;

⁹ virtue you love as much as you hate wickedness. This is why God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness, above all your rivals.[*e]

¹⁰ And again: It is you, Lord, who laid earth’s foundations in the beginning, the heavens are the work of your hands;

¹¹ all will vanish, though you remain, all wear out like a garment;

¹² you will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed. But yourself, you never change and your years are unending.[*f]

¹³ God has never said to any angel: Sit at my right hand and I will make your enemies a footstool for you.[*g]

¹⁴ The truth is they are all spirits whose work is service, sent to help those who will be the heirs of salvation.