31 Bible Verses about reality

These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind.

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

These serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

But Yahweh is the true God;
He is the living God and eternal King.
The earth quakes at His wrath,
and the nations cannot endure His rage.

So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Christ—whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised.

Now, Lord God, fulfill the promise forever that You have made to Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

But it is a spirit in man
and the breath of the Almighty
that give him understanding.

Although these have a reputation of wisdom by promoting ascetic practices, humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.

You have thought all along that we were defending ourselves to you. No, in the sight of God we are speaking in Christ, and everything, dear friends, is for building you up.

for the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corrupt, but now they are set apart for God.

For the thing I feared has overtaken me,
and what I dreaded has happened to me.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Sanctify them by the truth;
Your word is truth.