Hebrews 13:8

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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:

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.

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.

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.

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

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

New English Translation
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.

English Standard Version
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and 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.

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Let brotherly love continue. ² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. ⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ⁶ So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. ⁷ Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. ⁸ Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. ⁹ Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. ¹⁰ We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

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
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

Genesis 13:6
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Genesis 13:14
And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Genesis 13:17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord .

Genesis 45:24
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by 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.