73 Bible Verses about Types

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without a spot;

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the encampment. Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the people through his blood, suffered without the gate. Let us therefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach;

of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four cherubs and in the midst of the elders, a lamb standing as if killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.

and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.

And he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things written in the law of Moses, and Prophets, and Psalms, concerning me, must be fully accomplished. Then he opened their understanding to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day, read more.
and that a change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers; if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified? But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year; read more.
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with; then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God. Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law, then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God, henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

How then would the Scriptures be accomplished, that it must be so?

And he said to them, O foolish men, and of a mind slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? And from Moses, and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross; [and] having subjugated principalities and powers, he made a public exhibition of them, leading them in triumph by it. Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath, read more.
which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name,

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you, of your brothers, like me; him shall you hear in all things which he shall speak to you;

This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up for you, of your brothers, like me.

and he send to you Jesus Christ before appointed,

that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people, the Holy Spirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made manifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing, which is a type of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience, read more.
only in meats and drinks and different baptisms, and external ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation. But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, not with blood of goats and bullocks, but with his own blood, entered once into the sanctuary having found eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

whence also the first [covenant] was not initiated without blood. For every commandment of the law having been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of bullocks and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you. read more.
And he sprinkled also the tabernacle, and all the implements of the service, in like manner, with blood. And almost all things, according to the law, are purified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no forgiveness. It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us, not that he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the sanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being]; since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this is the judgment, so also Christ having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time without sin, to those who look for him for salvation.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers; if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified? But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year; read more.
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with; then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God. Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law, then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

which [entrance] he consecrated for us a new and living way through the vail, that is his flesh,

In him was life, and the life was the light of men;

In the midst of its broad plain and along the river on each side was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, and yielding monthly each of its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.

who serve for a symbol and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when about to make the tabernacle; for see, he says, that you make all things after the pattern shown you in the Mount;

The first covenant then had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. For the first tabernacle was provided, in which were the candlestick and the table and the show bread, which is called the sanctuary. But behind the second vail is the tabernacle, called the inner sanctuary, read more.
having the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which were the golden vase that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant, and over it were the cherubs of glory, overshadowing the propitiation; of which it is not necessary now to speak particularly. And these being thus provided, the priests enter into the first tabernacle continually, performing the services, but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people, the Holy Spirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made manifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing, which is a type of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience, only in meats and drinks and different baptisms, and external ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation. But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, not with blood of goats and bullocks, but with his own blood, entered once into the sanctuary having found eternal redemption.

For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.

We have an altar of which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

Then Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven; for the bread of God is he that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Then they said to him, Sir, always give us this bread. read more.
Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.

and all eat the same spiritual food,

because as Christ's sufferings abound in us, so also through Christ does our comfort abound.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; that every one believing in him may have eternal life.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open,

And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's transgression, who is a type of him that was to come;

And I saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that thirsts, come; let him that will, take the water of life freely.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the last seven plagues came, and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show you the wife, the bride of the Lamb.

On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

and looking at Jesus as he walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God.

who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. The archetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth of all, first being interpreted king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace, without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither a beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like the Son of God, continues a priest forever. read more.
And behold, how great this man was, to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils. And the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is their brothers, although descended from Abraham; but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises. But beyond all contradiction, the less is blessed by the greater. And here, men who die receive tithes, but there, one of whom it is testified that he lives. And so to speak, Levi also who receives tithes paid tithes through Abraham; for he was yet in his father when Melchisedec met him. If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, of necessity also there is made a change of the law. For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar; for it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said nothing concerning priests. And moreover, [this] is still further evident, if another priest is raised up according to the likeness of Melchisedec, who was not a priest after the law of an external commandment, but after the power of imperishable life. For it is testified, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.

Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.