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They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.
Hebrews 1:11 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
  • BSB They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
  • NKJV They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment;
  • NASB They will perish, but You remain; And they all will wear out like a garment,
  • NLT They will perish, but you remain forever. They will wear out like old clothing.

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Quick answer

The created heavens and earth will perish and wear out, but the Son remains. He is permanent while creation is passing.

Overview

The quotation from Psalm 102 contrasts the changeable, aging creation with the unchanging Creator. Like a worn-out garment, the present world will pass away, yet the Son 'continues.' This permanence is a divine attribute, reinforcing both Christ's deity and the security believers have in one who outlasts all that is temporary.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
  • Mark 13:31Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Luke 21:33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
  • Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Isa 34:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
  • Rev 21:1I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
  • Ps 10:16Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
  • Isa 65:17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
  • Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
  • Isa 41:4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
  • Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
  • Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
  • Ps 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
  • Isa 50:9Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
  • Rev 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
  • 2 Pet 3:7–10But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
  • Heb 12:27This phrase, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
  • Isa 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
  • Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
  • Rev 1:17–18When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

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Christ at the center

Hebrews is sustained worship of Christ: better than angels, Moses, and the priests; the great High Priest after Melchizedek who by one sacrifice perfects forever those he saves.

How Hebrews 1:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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