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Hebrews 2:9

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

KJV

τὸν δὲ βραχύ τι παρ’ ἀγγέλους ἠλαττωμένον βλέπομεν Ἰησοῦν διὰ τὸ πάθημα τοῦ θανάτου δόξῃ καὶ τιμῇ ἐστεφανωμένον, ὅπως χάριτι θεοῦ ὑπὲρ παντὸς γεύσηται θανάτου.

Greek NT

Eum autem, qui modico quam angeli minoratus est, videmus Jesum propter passionem mortis, gloria et honore coronatum : ut, gratia Dei, pro omnibus gustaret mortem.

Vulgate

But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every man.

ASV

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βλέπω
blepo
verb · 132×
βραχύς
brachus
adjective · 7×
γεύομαι
geuomai
verb · 15×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
θάνατος
thanatos
noun · 120×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πάθημα
pathema
noun · 16×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
στεφανόω
stephanoo
verb · 3×
τιμή
time
noun · 41×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἄγγελος
aggelos
verb · 176×
ἐλαττόω
elattoo
verb · 3×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×
ὅπως
opos
adverb · 53×
ὑπέρ
uper
preposition · 148×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: χωρὶς | Holmes: χωρὶς | WH/Treg/NIV/RP: χάριτι
  • χωρὶςSBLGNT
  • χωρὶςSBLGNT
  • χάριτιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§624"By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one".459 In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only "die for our sins"460 but should also "taste death", experience the condition of death, the separation of his soul from his body, between the time he expired on the cross and the time he was raised from the dead. the state of the dead Christ is the my…
1. I could have wished to know for certain whether any hear with fitting earnestness the things that are said, whether we are not casting the seeds by the wayside: for in that case I should have made my instructions with more cheerfulness. For we shall speak, though no one hear, for the fear which is laid on us by our Saviour. For, says He, testify to this people; even if they …
1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…
Summa Theologica · 3 passages
Is the soul of man carried away to things divine? Does rapture pertain to the cognitive or to the appetitive power? Did Paul when in rapture see the essence of God? Was he withdrawn from his senses? When in that state, was his soul was wholly separated from his body? What did he know, and what did he not know about this matter? Article 1. Whether the soul of man is carried away…
Was there any habitual grace in the soul of Christ? Were there virtues in Christ? Did He have faith? Did He have hope? Were there the gifts in Christ? Was the gift of fear in Christ? Were there any gratuitous graces in Christ? Was there prophecy in Christ? Was there the fulness of grace in Him? Was such fulness proper to Christ? Was the grace of Christ infinite? Could it have b…
Is it fitting that Christ should be a priest? The victim offered by this priest The effect of this priesthood Does the effect of His priesthood pertain to Himself, or only to others? The eternal duration of His priesthood Should He be called "a priest according to the order of Melchisedech"? Article 1. Whether it is fitting that Christ should be a priest? Objection 1. It would …
Q. Why did Christ have to go all the way to death? A. Because God's justice and truth demand it: only the death of God's Son could pay for our sin.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be the one Mediator between God and men; the eternal High Priest, who by the sacrifice of Himself upon the Cross reconciled the Father to us, and offered Himself a ransom for all, not for the elect only, as the abominable heresy of Calvin teaches. For Christ tasted death for every man. He hath achieved the redemption of all mankind, and His d…

Cross-references

  • 1John 2:2 — And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • 1John 4:9 — In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
  • 1Pet 1:21 — Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • 1Pet 1:21 — Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • 1Tim 2:6 — Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
  • 1Tim 3:16 — And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up int
  • 2Cor 5:14 — For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
  • 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • 2Cor 5:21 — For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
  • 2Tim 2:5 — And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
  • Acts 2:33 — Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
  • Acts 3:13 — The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him
  • Acts 3:13 — The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him
  • Acts 3:22 — For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
  • Eph 4:9 — (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
  • Gal 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • Gen 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  • Heb 1:4 — Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
  • Heb 2:7 — Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
  • Heb 3:3 — For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
  • Heb 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
  • Heb 8:3 — For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
  • Heb 10:5 — Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
  • Isa 7:14 — Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Isa 11:1 — And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
  • Isa 53:2 — For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
  • John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • John 3:16 — For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  • John 8:52 — Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
  • John 8:52 — Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
  • John 10:17 — Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
  • John 10:17 — Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
  • John 10:18 — No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
  • John 12:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
  • John 12:32 — And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
  • John 12:32 — And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
  • John 14:28 — Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
  • Luke 9:27 — But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
  • Mark 9:1 — And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
  • Mark 9:1 — And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.