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Psalm 8:5

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo3

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

1 Cor 13:1 ?

'Tongues of angels' presupposes the OT picture of angels (here 'a little lower than the angels/elohim') as a class of glorious heavenly beings whose speech surpasses human. The motif of angelic language is developed in Second-Temple texts; the canonical seedbed is the angelic praise tradition.

Low confidence
2 Cor 3:16-18 ?

Psalm 8:5 ('crowned him with glory and honour') articulates humanity's glory, which Paul sees restored as believers go 'from glory to glory.' A faint thematic echo of the glory-of-the-image tradition; contested and low volume.

Low confidence
John 17:20-23 ?

Glory bestowed on the disciples (v22) loosely recalls humanity 'crowned with glory and honor.' Generic glory-conferral idiom; supportive but faint and contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 8
Psalm 8:2 2Psalm 8:6 8