'Things' in the Bible

For this reason we must pay closer attention to the things we have heard, or we may drift away,

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case, things that point to salvation.

so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of atonement. (We cannot discuss these things in detail now.)

since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.

But when the Messiah came as a high priest of the good things that have come, he went through the greater and more perfect tent that was not made by human hands and that is not a part of this creation.

Thus it was necessary for these earthly copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves are made clean with better sacrifices than these.

By faith we understand that time was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are invisible.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, reverently prepared an ark to save his family, and by faith he condemned the world and inherited the righteousness that comes by faith.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

For people who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.