28 Bible Verses about Metaphors

Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

one God and Father of all. He is over all, and through all, and in us all.

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

There is none holy as LORD, for there is none besides thee, neither is there any rock like our God.

And he said, LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine.

He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be greatly moved.

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who lead Joseph like a flock. Thou who sit [above] the cherubim, shine forth.

For thus says lord LORD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock, in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep, and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of theread more.
I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold shall be upon the mountains of the height of Israel. There they shall lay down in a good fold, and on fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lay down, says lord LORD. I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justic

Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will, no, not hunger, and he who believes in me will, no, not ever thirst. But also I said to you, that ye have seen me, and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and he who comes to me I will, no, not cast out.read more.
Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I might do my will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all that he has given me I would not lose from it, but I will raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of him who sent me, that every man who sees the Son, and believes in him, may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. The Jews therefore murmured about him because he said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven. And they said, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Therefore how does this man say, I have come down out of heaven? Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among each other. No man can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they will all be taught of God. Every man who hears from the Father, and having learned, comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die. I am the living bread, having come down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread, he will live into the age. And also, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, so that he may dwell with you into the age,

But when the helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I depart, for if I do not depart, the helper will not come to you. But whenever I go, I will send him to you.

And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

If he sets his heart upon himself, [if] he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself,

The wind blows where it will, and thou hear the sound of it, but know not from where it comes, and where it goes. So is every man who is begotten from the Spirit.

We should be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there will not be any more death, nor grief, nor crying, nor will there be any more anguish, because the former things are gone.read more.
And he who sits upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write, because these words are TRUE and faithful. And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him, and he will be a son to me. But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. And there came one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues, and he spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the woman, the bride of the Lamb.

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.