² You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

²² And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

⁶ For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

¹³ And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts.

¹⁴ And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

¹⁵ And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.

¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

²⁶ It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

³ Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

⁴ Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

¹⁴ And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

¹⁷ For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

⁴ The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,

¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁴⁶ The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.

² And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

¹⁰ My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

¹¹ His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

¹² His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.

¹³ His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

¹⁴ His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

¹⁵ His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

¹⁶ His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

³ As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

¹¹ He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

¹⁷ May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders.

¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

¹⁵ Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;

¹⁶ For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.