Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,

that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow--of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth--

and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

For such a chief priest did become us--kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;

for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that is after the law appointeth the Son--to the age having been perfected.

then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

saying above--`Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' --which according to the law are offered--

then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered--to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies as his footstool,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

Not yet unto blood did ye resist--with the sin striving;

but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence--who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, --to which also they were set;

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,