Bible Verses About Preciousness of Christ

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out--thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

As a citron among trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit is sweet to my palate.

My beloved is clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!

His head is pure gold--fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,

His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.

His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips are lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,

His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires,

His limbs pillars of marble, Founded on sockets of fine gold, His appearance as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

His mouth is sweetness--and all of him desirable, This is my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone--a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them : Suckling ones He leadeth.

For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins--make fruitful!

and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, `This is My Son--the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,

who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;

to me--the less than the least of all the saints--was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news--the untraceable riches of the Christ,

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.

and to a mediator of a new covenant--Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--