34 Bible Verses about Truth

Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."

for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belongs the glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

for no prophecy was ever made by the act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

But we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For if I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.

I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.

For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, and how you are walking in truth.

"But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak; and he will tell you things to come.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already.

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I have not come of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you are not able to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

My little children, I write this to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. Now by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. read more.
He who says, "I know him," but does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in wickedness. But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone is willing to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own authority. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the One who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth. By this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him read more.
whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

Though if I should boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away; and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. read more.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is cast away and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you, that you love one another. "If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all this they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' "But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you forever the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. read more.
A little while longer, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. read more.
And when he comes, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you see me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak; and he will tell you things to come.

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, each one of you must speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, each one of you must speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been done in God."

but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things.

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free'?"

His disciples said, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will recover."

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the One who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, each one of you must speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I gave you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, even now you are not ready,

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

Though if I should boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

if I am delayed, you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

and will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;

The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth, because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth,

And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him.

So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people begged that these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath.

Therefore David himself calls him 'Lord'; how is he then his son?" And the common people heard him gladly.

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

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

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak; and he will tell you things to come.

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Then the Jews began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?"

Then the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I go you cannot come'?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors;

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

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

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth which leads to godliness,

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are Yes. And so through him we speak our Amen to the glory of God.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given of his Son.

if I am delayed, you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

and they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the ages!

And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and just are your judgments."

and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.

and will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.