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# Hebrews 1

Hebrews 1 is chapter 1 of 13 in the Letter to the Hebrews. Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who is incomparably greater than the angels.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hebrews 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In many places and in many ways, in past times, God spoke to the fathers through the Prophets;
2. lastly, in these days, he has spoken to us through the Son, whom he appointed as the heir of all things, and through whom he made the world.
3. And since the Son is the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and is carrying all things by the Word of his virtue, thereby accomplishing a purging of sins, he sits at the right hand of Majesty on high.
4. And having been made so much better than the Angels, he has inherited a name so much greater than theirs.
5. For to which of the Angels has he ever said: “You are my Son; today have I begotten you?” Or again: “I will be a Father to him, and he shall be a Son to me?”
6. And again, when he brings the only-begotten Son into the world, he says: “And let all the Angels of God adore him.”
7. And about the Angels, certainly, he says: “He makes his Angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
8. But about the Son: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of equity.
9. You have loved justice, and you have hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of exultation, above your companions.”
10. And: “In the beginning, O Lord, you founded the earth. And the heavens are the work of your hands.
11. These shall pass away, but you will remain. And all will grow old like a garment.
12. And you will change them like a cloak, and they shall be changed. Yet you are ever the same, and your years will not diminish.”
13. But to which of the Angels has he ever said: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?”
14. Are they not all spirits of ministration, sent to minister for the sake of those who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

## Hebrews 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Multifariam, multisque modis olim Deus loquens patribus in prophetis:
2. novissime, diebus istis locutus est nobis in Filio, quem constituit hæredem universorum, per quem fecit et sæcula:
3. qui cum sit splendor gloriæ, et figura substantiæ ejus, portansque omnia verbo virtutis suæ, purgationem peccatorum faciens, sedet ad dexteram majestatis in excelsis:
4. tanto melior angelis effectus, quanto differentius præ illis nomen hæreditavit.
5. Cui enim dixit aliquando angelorum: Filius meus es tu, ego hodie genui te? Et rursum: Ego ero illi in patrem, et ipse erit mihi in filium?
6. Et cum iterum introducit primogenitum in orbem terræ, dicit: Et adorent eum omnes angeli Dei.
7. Et ad angelos quidem dicit: Qui facit angelos suos spiritus, et ministros suos flammam ignis.
8. Ad Filium autem: Thronus tuus Deus in sæculum sæculi: virga æquitatis, virga regni tui.
9. Dilexisti justitiam, et odisti iniquitatem: propterea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, oleo exultationis præ participibus tuis.
10. Et: Tu in principio, Domine, terram fundasti: et opera manuum tuarum sunt cæli.
11. Ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanebis, et omnes ut vestimentum veterascent:
12. et velut amictum mutabis eos, et mutabuntur: tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non deficient.
13. Ad quem autem angelorum dixit aliquando: Sede a dextris meis, quoadusque ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum?
14. Nonne omnes sunt administratorii spiritus, in ministerium missi propter eos, qui hæreditatem capient salutis?

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 65: Christ Jesus -- "Mediator and Fullness of All Revelation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 102: Christ - The Unique Word of Sacred Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 241: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2502: Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2777: "We Dare To Say" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2795: "Who Art in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 333: Heaven and Earth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 447: Lord ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 331: Heaven and Earth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: “The figure” … that is, the express image, and most perfect resemblance.
- Verse 3: That is, having purged away our sins by his passion.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Dec 25, 2026: The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) — Second Reading, Hebrews 1:1-6
- Fri, Jan 1, 2027: Mary, the Holy Mother of God — Alleluia, Hebrews 1:1-2
- Sat, Jan 2, 2027: Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church — Alleluia, Hebrews 1:1-2
- Mon, Jan 11, 2027: Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hebrews 1:1-6

3 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).