Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets,

New American Standard Bible

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,

King James Version

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Holman Bible

Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways.

International Standard Version

God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,

A Conservative Version

God, who formerly spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, spoke to us in these last days by a Son,

American Standard Version

God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,

Amplified

God, having spoken to the fathers long ago in [the voices and writings of] the prophets in many separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the truth], and in many ways,

An Understandable Version

In times past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets in many parts and in various ways,

Anderson New Testament

GOD, who in many parts and in many ways spoke in ancient times to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son,

Bible in Basic English

In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

Common New Testament

In the past God spoke to our fathers by the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Daniel Mace New Testament

God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON,

Godbey New Testament

On many occasions and in many ways in the olden time, God having spoken to the fathers through the prophets, at the last of these days has spoken to us through his Son,

Goodspeed New Testament

It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,

John Wesley New Testament

God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake of old to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son;

Julia Smith Translation

God, formerly multifariously and abundantly having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

King James 2000

God, who at many times and in various manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Although] God spoke long ago in many parts and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets,

Modern King James verseion

God, who at many times and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

God, in time past, diversely and many ways, spake unto the fathers by prophets:

Moffatt New Testament

Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets,

Montgomery New Testament

God, who in ancient days spoke to our ancestors in the prophets, at many different times and by various methods,

NET Bible

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

New Heart English Bible

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Noyes New Testament

God, who at different times and in different ways spoke of old to the fathers by the prophets,

Sawyer New Testament

GOD, who at many times and in many ways spoke anciently to the fathers by the prophets,

The Emphasized Bible

Whereas, in many parts and in many ways of old, God spake unto the fathers, in the prophets,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

GOD, who spake to the fathers of old at various times, and in different manners by the prophets,

Twentieth Century New Testament

God, who, of old, at many times and in many ways, spoke to our ancestors, by the Prophets,

Webster

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

Weymouth New Testament

God, who in ancient days spoke to our forefathers in many distinct messages and by various methods through the Prophets,

Williams New Testament

It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets,

World English Bible

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Worrell New Testament

God, having in many parts and many ways spoken, of old, to the fathers in the prophets,

Worsley New Testament

God, who at sundry times, and various ways, spake of old unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son,

Youngs Literal Translation

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
God, who
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

πολυμέρως 
Polumeros 
Usage: 1

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

πολυτρόπως 
Polutropos 
Usage: 1

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

in time past
πάλαι 
Palai 
Usage: 4

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

by
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Images Hebrews 1:1

Prayers for Hebrews 1:1

Context Readings

God's Full And Final Revelation In The Son

25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 1 God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets, 2 at the end of these days has spoken to us in the person of the Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

Joel 2:28

And it shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

Numbers 12:6-8

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I Jehovah will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak to him in a dream.

Genesis 6:3

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:13-22

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 8:15-19

And God spoke to Noah, saying,

Genesis 9:1-17

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 12:1-3

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

Genesis 26:2-5

And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.

Genesis 28:12-15

And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to the heavens. And behold, angels of God ascended and descended upon it.

Genesis 32:24-30

And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

Genesis 46:2-4

And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I.

Exodus 3:1-22

And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God to Horeb.

Luke 1:55

(as he spoke to our fathers,) to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Luke 1:72

to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,

Luke 24:27

And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luke 24:44

And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.

John 7:22

Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

John 9:29

We know that God spoke to Moses; but as to this man, we know not whence he is.

Acts 2:30

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;

Acts 13:32

And we declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers,

Acts 28:23

And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.

Hebrews 2:2

For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

1 Peter 1:10-12

Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

2 Peter 1:20-21

knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

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