Bible Verses About Christ Our Shepherd, Priest & King
Jesus is our Good Shepherd who lays down his life, our great High Priest who ever lives to intercede, and the King of kings seated at God’s right hand. He leads us, prays for us, and reigns over all. These verses rest in his care, his mediation, and his rule.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
We have, then, a great high priest who has gone through the heavens: Jesus the Son of God. So let us keep a firm grip on the confession we make.
On his robe and on his thigh is written a name: King of kings and Lord of lords.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, himself human,
That is why God has exalted him far above all and freely given him the name that is above every name, so that every knee will bend before the name of Jesus, in heaven, on earth and below the earth, and every tongue will openly declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, bringing glory to God the Father.
Salvation comes through no one but him. Under all of heaven God has given humankind no other name through which we are to be saved.”
My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate in the Father’s presence, Jesus Christ, who is righteous.
May the God of peace, who led our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, up from the dead through the blood of an eternal covenant,
which he put to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
For this reason he is able to save completely those who approach God through him, since he is always alive to plead on their behalf.
You have been built on the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.
He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first to be born from among the dead, so that he would come to hold first place in everything.