Bible Verses About Preciousness of Christ

Thou art fairer than the children of men; Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.

His head isasthe most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, Asbanks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His hands areasrings of gold set with beryl: His body isasivory work overlaid with sapphires.

His legs areaspillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly pearls:

and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell;

having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ: