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, ye believe me not.

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

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye 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.

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

Whereunto 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 verity.

And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest 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.

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

Howbeit 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 shew you things to come.

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

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

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

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh 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 saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest 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 heareth 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 sober, it is for your cause.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

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

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with 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 be 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 fables.

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.

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