37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the truth to you?

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."

I have written to you, not because you are ignorant of the truth, but because you know it, and you know that nothing false comes from the truth.

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction)

So they came to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you are a truthful man and you do not fear any one; for you do not recognize human distinctions, but teach God's way truly. Is it allowable to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

In making these assertions I am speaking the truth, as in the sight of God.

"I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.

For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were, parts of one another.

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true. He knows that he is telling the truth--in order that you also may believe.

But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

I am telling you the truth as a Christian man--it is no falsehood, for my conscience enlightened, as it is, by the Holy Spirit adds its testimony to mine--

Which of *you* convicts me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and some one brings him back,

If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not adhering to the truth.

He who professes to know Him, and yet does not obey His commands, is a liar, and the truth has no place in his heart.

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

"So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

In the matter of the truth they have gone astray, saying that the Resurrection is already past, and so they are overthrowing the faith of some.

For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory; or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be of service to you.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

"If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"

No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest."

"In most solemn truth," answered Jesus, "I tell you that before Abraham came into existence, I am."

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

and will turn away from listening to the truth and will turn aside to fables.

As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about."

Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--

If we claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves astray and the truth has no place in our hearts.

"'In solemn truth I tell you,' he replied, 'I do not know you.'