11 Bible Verses about Preeminence Of Christ
Most Relevant Verses
He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.
I indeed am baptizing you in water, unto repentance; but One is coming after me, mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.
"He that comes from above is above all; but one who is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all.
"Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am.
"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know assuredly that Gods has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified."
For this purpose Christ died and became alive again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.
He is as much superior to the angels as the name that he has inherited surpasses theirs.
Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.
But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.
saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."
But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.