Hebrews
1
In the past God communicated to our ancestors at various times and in many different ways by what he told the prophets to do, say, and write. 2 But now when this final age is beginning, God has communicated to us by his own Son. God has chosen him to possess all things. By him God also created the universe. 3 By looking at God’s Son, we can see how wonderful God is. He shows exactly what God is truly like. He sustains everything by his powerful commands. After he sacrificed himself to take away people’s sins, he rose into heaven and sat down at the highest place of honor, where he rules with God as king.4 By doing that he demonstrated that he is as much greater than the angels as the name that God has given him, ‘Son of God,’ is greater than theirs.” 5 In the scriptures no one ever reported that God said to any angel what he said to his Son:
“You are my Son!
Today I have declared to all that I am your Father!”
And he never said about any angel what he said in another scripture passage about his Son:
“I will be his Father,
and he will be to me a Son.”
6 And again, when he brings his honored Son, his only Son, into the world, he commanded:
“All the angels of God must worship him.”
7 And in the scriptures he said about the angels:
“God has made his angels to be like winds,
and his ministers who serve him to be like flames of fire.”
8 But in the scriptures, he also said about God’s Son:
“You who are God will rule forever,
and you will reign justly over your kingdom.
9 You have loved people’s righteous deeds and you have hated people’s sinful deeds.
So God, whom you worship, has caused you to be more joyful than anyone else besides you.”
10 We also know that his Son is superior to angels because someone wrote,
“Lord, it was you who created the earth in the beginning.
You also made the rest of the universe, the stars and everything in the sky.
11 Those things will no longer exist, but you will keep on living forever.
They will all wear out as clothing wears out.
12 You will roll them up like a cloth, as if they were old clothes.
Then you will change all that is in the universe for something new,
like someone putting on new clothes.
But you stay the same, and you live forever!”
13 God has never said to any angel what he said to his Son:
“Sit in the most important place next to me and rule with me
while I defeat all of your enemies for you to rule over them!”
14 The angels are only spirits whom God has sent out to serve and care for believers whom God will soon save completely, as he has promised to do for them.