Hebrews 2:8 meaning and explanation

and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

Hebrews 2:8, Berean Standard Bible

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The writer quotes Psalm 8, where God gives humanity rule over creation, and presses its logic: if all things are subjected, nothing is left outside that rule. Writing to believers tempted to drift, he admits the gap between the promise and what we see.

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