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Jesus Christ / Our Example
Jesus is the promised Christ, the Son of God and eternal Word who became flesh. He lived without sin, taught God's truth, suffered, died for sins, was buried, rose bodily, ascended, and now reigns at God's right hand. Salvation, authority, judgment, and the church all center in Him.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Matthew 16:16; John 1:1-3,14; Acts 2:22-36; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Colossians 1:13-20; Hebrews 1:1-4
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
36 indexed verses · Showing 1–36. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Matthew 16:16 (KJV)
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
John 1:1 (KJV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 (KJV)
The same was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 (KJV)
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:14 (KJV)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Acts 2:22 (KJV)
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Acts 2:23 (KJV)
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Acts 2:24 (KJV)
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:25 (KJV)
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Acts 2:26 (KJV)
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Acts 2:27 (KJV)
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 2:28 (KJV)
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Acts 2:29 (KJV)
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:30 (KJV)
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Acts 2:31 (KJV)
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Acts 2:32 (KJV)
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33 (KJV)
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Acts 2:34 (KJV)
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 (KJV)
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 (KJV)
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:1 (KJV)
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
1 Corinthians 15:2 (KJV)
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:3 (KJV)
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:4 (KJV)
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Colossians 1:13 (KJV)
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Colossians 1:14 (KJV)
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Colossians 1:15 (KJV)
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Colossians 1:16 (KJV)
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Colossians 1:17 (KJV)
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Colossians 1:18 (KJV)
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians 1:19 (KJV)
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians 1:20 (KJV)
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Hebrews 1:1 (KJV)
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 (KJV)
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:3 (KJV)
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 1:4 (KJV)
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.