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

⁵ 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.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For it was not to angels that God subjected the habitable world of the future, of which we are speaking.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak.

Common English Bible

⁵ God didn’t put the world that is coming (the world we are talking about) under the angels’ control.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For God did not subject the future world, about which we are speaking, to the Angels.

Hebrews 2:5 Cross References

Matthew 24:14

And this good news concerning the kingdom [of heaven] will be preached to people throughout the world as a testimony [of God’s message] to all nations. Then, [after that] the end [i.e., of Jerusalem, the Temple, etc.] will come.

Hebrews 13:14

For we do not have a lasting city here on earth [i.e., such as Jerusalem] but we are looking for the city to come [i.e., heaven. See 10:11].

Hebrews 6:5

and who had experienced the good teaching of God and the powers of the coming age [i.e., they had already received some of the blessings of the Christian life, perhaps even miraculous signs],

2 Peter 3:13

But, since God has promised it, we look forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will prevail.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel sounded its trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord [i.e., God] and of His Christ, and He will rule forever and ever.”