Bible Verses About Preciousness of Christ

Thou art fayrer then the children of men: grace is powred in thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for euer.

Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.

Like the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my welbeloued among the sonnes of men: vnder his shadow had I delite, and sate downe: and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth.

My welbeloued is white and ruddie, the chiefest of ten thousand.

His head is as fine golde, his lockes curled, and blacke as a rauen.

His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels.

His cheekes are as a bedde of spices, and as sweete flowres, and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe.

His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs.

His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem. O the fairest among women, whither is thy welbeloued gone? whither is thy welbeloued turned aside, that we may seeke him with thee?

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will laye in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. Hee that beleeueth, shall not make haste.

He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his arme, and cary them in his bosome, and shall guide them with young.

For howe great is his goodnesse! and howe great is his beautie! corne shall make the yong men cherefull, and newe wine the maides.

And loe, a voyce came from heauen, saying, This is my beloued Sonne, in whome I am well pleased.

Againe, the kingdom of heauen is like vnto a treasure hid in ye field, which when a man hath found, he hideth it, and for ioy thereof departeth and selleth all that he hath, and buieth that field.

Againe, the kingdome of heauen is like to a marchant man, that seeketh good pearles,

Who hauing found a pearle of great price, went and solde all that he had, and bought it.

And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.

Then Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whome shall we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternall life:

Euen vnto me the least of all Saints is this grace giuen, that I should preach among the Gentiles the vnsearchable riches of Christ,

Yea, doubtlesse I thinke all thinges but losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord, for whome I haue counted all things losse, and doe iudge them to bee dongue, that I might winne Christ,

For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulnesse dwell,

And is made so much more excellent then the Angels, in as much as hee hath obteined a more excellent Name then they.

And to Iesus the Mediatour of the new Testament, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel.

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.