Hebrews 13:8

Christian Standard Bible ®

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
Iesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for euer.

King James Version
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

English Standard Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

New American Standard Bible
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.

New Century Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Darby Translation
Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and to-day, and to the ages [to come].

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Remember them which haue the ouersight of you, which haue declared vnto you the word of God: whose faith followe, considering what hath bene the ende of their conuersation. Iesus Christ yesterday, and to day, the same also is for euer.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.

Good News Translation
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Lexham English Bible
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Literal Translation
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever.

Amplified Bible
Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever.

American Standard Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever.

Bible in Basic English
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

International Standard Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today - and forever!John 8:58; Hebrews 1:12; Revelation 1:4;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu Meshiha is yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.

Murdock Translation
Jesus the Messiah is the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus Christe yesterday and to day, and the same for euer.

English Revised Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and for ever.

World English Bible
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to day and for ever.

Weymouth's New Testament
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and to the ages to come.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesu Crist, yistirdai, and to dai, he is also into worldis.

Update Bible Version
Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today, and forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.

New English Translation
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!

New King James Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

New Living Translation
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

New Life Bible
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

New Revised Standard
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to-day, is the same, - and unto the ages.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus Christ yesterdaye and to daye and the same continueth for ever.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus Christ yesterdaye and Todaye, & the same cotinueth for euer.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever. be not then misled by artful, novel doctrines:

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus ain't changing a lick. He's the same every day.

Contextual Overview

¹Let brotherly love continue. ²Don’t neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it. ³Remember those in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily. ⁴Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. ⁵Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you or abandon you. ⁶Therefore, we may boldly say, ⁷Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith. ⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ⁹Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited. ¹⁰We have an altar from which those who worship at the tabernacle do not have a right to eat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hebrews 1:12, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 90:4, Psalms 102:27, Psalms 102:28, Psalms 103:17, Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 44:6, Malachi 3:6, John 8:56-58, James 1:17, Revelation 1:4, Revelation 1:8, Revelation 1:11, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 1:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:12 - double Exodus 3:14 - I AM hath Exodus 3:15 - my memorial Exodus 38:1 - General Psalms 9:7 - But Psalms 93:2 - thou Psalms 102:12 - thou Isaiah 30:33 - of old Isaiah 43:13 - before Isaiah 46:4 - even to your Lamentations 5:19 - remainest Micah 5:2 - whose Habakkuk 1:12 - thou not Habakkuk 3:6 - his John 1:1 - the beginning John 1:15 - he was John 8:58 - Before Romans 16:26 - everlasting 2 Corinthians 1:19 - was not 2 Corinthians 1:20 - all Philippians 2:6 - in Colossians 1:17 - he 1 Timothy 6:16 - only 2 Timothy 1:3 - with Hebrews 7:24 - he continueth Revelation 4:8 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

Genesis 13:3
He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

Genesis 13:6
But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,

Genesis 13:7
and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.)

Genesis 13:9
Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the entire plain of the Jordan for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.

Genesis 13:14
After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

Genesis 13:17
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 45:24
So Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Don’t argue on the way.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. Who is the substance of the word spoken by the above mentioned rulers, the author and object of their faith, and the end in which their conversation terminated. These words may be expressive of the duration of Christ: he was "yesterday", which does not design the day immediately foregoing, nor some little time past, but ancient times, formerly, of old; and though it does not extend to eternity, which is true of Christ, yet may be carried further than to the days of his flesh here on earth, even to the whole Old Testament dispensation; yea, to the beginning of the world, when he existed not only as the eternal Word, the everlasting "I am", but as the Saviour and Redeemer of his people; during which dispensation he frequently appeared in an human form, and was the sum of all promises and prophecies, and the substance of all types and shadows, and the spiritual food of his people: and he is "today" under the Gospel dispensation; in his person as God-man, and in his offices as prophet, priest, and King: and will be so "for ever": he will never die more; his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his priesthood an unchangeable one. Moreover, these words may regard the immutability of Christ; who is unchangeable in his person, perfections, and essence, as God; and in his love to his people; and in the fulness of his grace, and in the efficacy of his blood, and in the virtue of his sacrifice and righteousness: it may be observed, that ο αυτος, translated "the same", answers to הוא, "he", a name of God, Psalms 102:27 and which is used in Jewish writings x for a name of God; and so it is among the Turks y: and it is expressive of his eternity, immutability, and independence; and well agrees with Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever.

x Seder Tephillot, fol. 2. 1. & 4. 1. Ed. Basil. fol. 6. 2. & 7. 1. Ed. Amstelod. Zehar in Exod. fol. 35. 4. Maimonides in Misn. Succa, c. 4. sect. 5. y Smith de Moribus Turc. p. 40.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jesus Christ the same yesterday ... - As this stands in our common translation, it conveys an idea which is not in the original. It would seem to mean that Jesus Christ, the unchangeable Saviour, was the end or aim of the conduct of those referred to, or that they lived to imitate and glorify him. But this is by no means the meaning in the original. There it stands as an absolute proposition, that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever;” that is, that he is unchangeable. The evident design of this independent proposition here is, to encourage them to persevere by showing that their Saviour was always the same; that he who had sustained his people in former times, was the same still, and would be the same forever. The argument here, therefore, for perseverance is founded on the “immutability” of the Redeemer. If he were fickle, vacillating, changing in his character and plans; if today he aids his people, and tomorrow will forsake them; if at one time he loves the virtuous, and at another equally loves the vicious; if he formed a plan yesterday which he has abandoned today; or if he is ever to be a different being from what he is now, there would be no encouragement to effort. Who would know what to depend on? Who would know what to expect tomorrow? For who could have any certainty that he could ever please a capricious or a vacillating being? Who could know how to shape his conduct if the principles of the divine administration were not always the same? At the same time, also, that this passage furnishes the strongest argument for fidelity and perseverance, it is an irrefragable proof of the divinity of the Saviour. It asserts immutability - sameness in the past, the present, and to all eternity but of whom can this be affirmed but God? It would not be possible to conceive of a declaration which would more strongly assert immutability than this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 13:8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday — In all past times there was no way to the holiest but through the blood of Jesus, either actually shed, or significantly typified. To-day - he is the lamb newly slain, and continues to appear in the presence of God for us. For ever-to the conclusion of time, he will be the way, the truth, and the life, none coming to the Father but through him; and throughout eternity, εις τους αιωνας, it will appear that all glorified human spirits owe their salvation to his infinite merit. This Jesus was thus witnessed of by your guides, who are already departed to glory. Remember HIM; remember them; and take heed to yourselves.