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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
  • KJV Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
  • BSB 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.

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Quick answer

Jesus Christ never changes; He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His unchanging nature is the anchor for steadfast faith.

Overview

Placed between a call to imitate faithful leaders and a warning against strange teachings, this affirmation of Christ's immutability grounds enduring faith. Though leaders pass away, Jesus remains constant in His person, work, and promises. His eternal sameness assures believers that the gospel they received is reliable and that He will keep His covenant forever.

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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