48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

To this I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

And when they were come, they said unto him, Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man: for you regard not the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

These are the things that you shall do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness, deceit.

And he that saw it bares record, and his record is true: and he knows that he says the truth, that you might believe.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?

We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.

Pilate therefore said unto him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be in our right mind, it is for your cause.

But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are worked in God.

Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why strike me?

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaks what is right.

But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that upholds me in these things, but Michael your prince.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto myths.

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

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

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.