24 Bible Verses about reality

All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.

(men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly ??as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).

And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

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

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

Besides, we are detected bearing false witness to God by affirming of him that he raised Christ ??whom he did not raise, if after all dead men never rise.

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,

By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.