'Fact' in the Bible

But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood -- for on that basis the people received the law -- what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron's order?

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

So in fact children were fathered by one man -- and this one as good as dead -- like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, "I shudder with fear."

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.