But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might have the first place in everything.

Who

And I tell you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

General references

All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?"

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;