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 to 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 depart; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to 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.

For which 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 had come, they say to 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 Cesar, or not?

Now the things which I write to 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 to 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 neighbor: for we are members one of another.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye 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 ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

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

And he that saw it, testified, and his testimony is true: and he knoweth that he speaketh truth, that ye may believe.

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

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

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

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

Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I speak 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. By this we know 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 one of you should err from the truth, and one should 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 to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Pilate therefore said to 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 testify to 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 are beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we are 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 testimony of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?

By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

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

But I will show 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 to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.

The wicked are estranged from their birth: 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 to 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 will turn away their ears from the truth, and will be turned to 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 to you, I know you not.

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