37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

When they came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care about no man; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I do not lie.)

"I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, each one of you must speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him, who is the head, into Christ,

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

He who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, that you also may believe.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak; and he will tell you things to come.

I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

My brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth.

He who says, "I know him," but does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

who have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and upset the faith of some.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been done in God."

Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"

Certainly not! Let God be true, though every man a liar. As it is written: "That you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged."

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth.

Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

and will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."

(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But he replied, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.'