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Hebrews 13:8 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 13 · verse 8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.Hebrews 13:8 · King James Version
What Hebrews 13:8 means
The verse sits between a word about leaders who have died and a warning about strange doctrines. That's the point of it. People you trusted are gone and the teaching keeps shifting, but the one you actually follow hasn't moved. What he was to them yesterday he still is today.
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Hebrews 13:8 in context
6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7Remember 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.
8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9Be 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.
10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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Key words (Strong's)
- yesterdayechthesyesterdayG5504 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
- daysēmeronthis day), what has happened todayG4594 →
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The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-17