Bible Verses About The Excellency and Glory of Christ

In the year of King 'Uziyahu's death I saw Adonai sitting on a high, lofty throne! The hem of his robe filled the temple.

S'rafim stood over him, each with six wings - two for covering his face, two for covering his feet and two for flying.

They were crying out to each other, "More holy than the holiest holiness is ADONAI-Tzva'ot! The whole earth is filled with his glory!"

The doorposts shook at the sound of their shouting, and the house was filled with smoke.

Then I said, "Woe to me! I [too] am doomed! because I, a man with unclean lips, living among a people with unclean lips, have seen with my own eyes the King, ADONAI-Tzva'ot!"

Who is this, coming from Edom, from Botzrah with clothing stained crimson, so magnificently dressed, so stately in his great strength? "It is I, who speak victoriously, I, well able to save."

Why is your apparel red, your clothes like someone treading a winepress?

"I have trodden the winepress alone; from the peoples, not one was with me. So I trod them in my anger, trampled them in my fury; so their lifeblood spurted out on my clothing, and I have stained all my garments;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning.

All things came to be through him, and without him nothing made had being.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not suppressed it.

and, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth; heaven is the work of your hands.

They will vanish, but you will remain; like clothing, they will all grow old;

and you will fold them up like a coat. Yes, they will be changed like clothing, but you remain the same, your years will never end.”

This is the kind of cohen gadol that meets our need — holy, without evil, without stain, set apart from sinners and raised higher than the heavens;

one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other cohanim g’dolim, of offering up sacrifices first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up himself.

For the Torah appoints as cohanim g’dolim men who have weakness; but the text which speaks about the swearing of the oath, a text written later than the Torah, appoints a Son who has been brought to the goal forever.

For when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, we did not rely on cunningly contrived myths. On the contrary, we saw his majesty with our own eyes.

For we were there when he received honor and glory from God the Father; and the voice came to him from the grandeur of the Sh’khinah, saying, “This is my son, whom I love; I am well pleased with him!”

We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

When he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of the Lamb. Each one held a harp and gold bowls filled with pieces of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people;

and they sang a new song, “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals; because you were slaughtered; at the cost of blood you ransomed for God persons from every tribe, language, people and nation.

You made them into a kingdom for God to rule, cohanim to serve him; and they will rule over the earth.”