But we see Jesus, who was made for a little while lower than the angels, in order to suffer death, that by the grace of God He might taste death for every man, crowned with glory and honor.

And He is the head of the body, which is the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.

Who

And I also say unto thee, as thou art called Peter, so upon this rock, which thou hast confessed, will I build my church, and the gates of death shall not prevail against it.

For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.

and precious, ye also are built up as living stones, a spiritual house, an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

General references

By Him were all things made, and without Him was not any one thing made that was made.

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

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