31 Bible Verses about reality

For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said!

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.