Hebrews 2:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For God did not place the coming inhabited world [Note: “The coming inhabited world” here probably refers to the present Christian age. It was viewed as “coming” from the perspective of Old Testament times], under the control of angels [and] that is the world we are talking about.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For it was not to angels that God subjected the habitable world of the future, of which we are speaking.

American Standard Version (1901)

For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak.

Common English Bible

God didn’t put the world that is coming (the world we are talking about) under the angels’ control.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

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