Hebrews 1:4
Good News Translation
The Son was made greater than the angels, just as the name that God gave him is greater than theirs.

New Revised Standard Version
having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Contemporary English Version
He had become much greater than the angels, and the name he was given is far greater than any of theirs.

New American Bible
as far superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Being made so much better than the angels as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Being made so much better than the angels as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

so.

Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.

Ephesians 1:21 Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Colossians 2:10 And you are filled in him, who is the head of all principality and power.

2 Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:

1 Peter 3:22 Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

Revelation 5:11,12 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the ancients (and the number of them was thousands of thousands), . . .

by.

Psalm 2:7,8 The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. . . .

Philippians 2:9-11 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: . . .

Context
The Supremacy of the Son
3Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high: 4Being made so much better than the angels as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they. 5For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?…
Cross References
Ephesians 1:21
Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

Hebrews 12:17
For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

Hebrews 1:3
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