48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

So then did I become your enemy speaking to you the truth?

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

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

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

But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide 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, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth.

And coming, they said to Him, Teacher, we know that you are true and you care about no one. For you do not look to the face of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

And what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

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

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

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

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

These are the things that you shall do. Each man speak the truth to his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates.

But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;

But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard beside God; this Abraham did not do.

He who breathes truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

And he who saw bore record, and his record is true. And he knows that he speaks true, so that you might believe.

However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come.

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

The lips of truth shall be established forever, but only while I wink is a lying tongue.

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;

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

We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart;

Brothers, if anyone among you err from the truth, and if anyone turns him back,

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.

Pilate then said to Him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say it that I am a king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.

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

For if we are out of our mind, it is to God; or if we are in our senses, it is for you.

But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God.

Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?

Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks right.

But I will show you that which is written in the Scripture of Truth. And there is none who holds strongly with me in these things, but Michael your ruler.

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I AM!

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the womb, speaking lies.

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

Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear shall live.

And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to 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, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.

You shall not steal, nor lie, nor be deceitful to one another.