Hebrews 11:40

11:40 For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us. ¹ 

Hebrews 13:6

13:6 So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and ²  I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” ³ 

Hebrews 2:6-7

2:6 Instead someone testified somewhere:

“What is man that you think of him ⁴  or the son of man that you care for him?

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

You crowned him with glory and honor. ⁵ 

Hebrews 8:3

8:3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

Hebrews 11:32

11:32 And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

Hebrews 2:9

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ⁶  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ⁷  so that by God’s grace he would experience ⁸  death on behalf of everyone.

[11:40]  ¹ tn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that they would not be made perfect without us.”

[13:6]  ² tc Some important mss (א* C* P 0285^vid 33 1175 1739 pc lat) lack καί (kai), but because the omission conforms to the wording of Ps 118:6 (117:6 LXX), it is suspect.

[13:6]  ³ sn A quotation from Ps 118:6.

[2:6]  ³ tn Grk “remember him.”

[2:7]  ⁴ 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.

[2:9]  ⁵ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

[2:9]  ⁶ tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).