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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8 · World English Bible
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  • KJV Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
  • BSB Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
  • ESV Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
  • NKJV Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
  • NASB Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.
  • NLT Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Mal 3:6“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
  • Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
  • Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
  • 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.
  • Heb 1:12You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years will not fail.”
  • Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
  • Ps 102:27–28But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
  • Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
  • 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.”
  • Ps 90:4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
  • 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,
  • Rev 1:4John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
  • John 8:56–58Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”
  • 2 Cor 1:19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
  • 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.”

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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 13:8 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.

Original language

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