22 Bible Verses about reality

That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

Faith means the assurance of what we hope for; it is our conviction about things that we cannot see.

These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands and only copied after the true one that Christ entered, but he went into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.

and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised.

For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!

Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

Have you been supposing all along that it is before you I have been defending myself? It is in the sight of God and as a follower of Christ that I have been speaking. But it is all to do you good, dear friends,

For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end.

But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ.

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.