◄ Hebrews 2:5 ►
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Good News Translation
God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come--the world of which we speak.

New Revised Standard Version
Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.

Contemporary English Version
We know that God did not put the future world under the power of angels.

New American Bible
For it was not to angels that he subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

the world.

Hebrews 6:5 Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come,

2 Peter 3:13 But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
Jesus Like His Brothers
4God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will. 5For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak. 6But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?…
Cross References
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation come.

Hebrews 6:5
Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come,

Hebrews 13:14
For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

Hebrews 2:4
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