48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

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

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

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

When they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know You are truthful and defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

Now I am not lying in what I write to you. God is my witness.

You love evil instead of good,
lying instead of speaking truthfully.Selah

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

For my mouth tells the truth,
and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your gates.

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right,
but a false witness, deceit.

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—

Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue, only a moment.

They say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.
Prophesy illusions.

Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

The one who lives honestly, practices righteousness,
and acknowledges the truth in his heart—

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

If we say, “We have fellowship with Him,” yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” yet doesn"t keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

“You are a king then?” Pilate asked.

“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.”

They have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overturning the faith of some.

For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we have a sound mind, it is for you.

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

“If I have spoken wrongly,” Jesus answered him, “give evidence about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit Me?”

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

Righteous lips are a king’s delight,
and he loves one who speaks honestly.

No one has the courage to support me against them except Michael, your prince. However, I will tell you what is recorded in the book of truth.

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Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars err from birth.

Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

“But he replied, ‘I assure you: I do not know you!’

“You must not steal. You must not act deceptively or lie to one another.