'Truth' in the Bible

And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one, for thou regardest not men's person;

But the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had taken place in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?

And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to the truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

But I say unto you of a truth, There are some of those standing here who shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom of God.

And they asked him saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest no man's person, but teachest with truth the way of God:

And after the lapse of about one hour another stoutly maintained it, saying, In truth this man also was with him, for also he is a Galilaean.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.

But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

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

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?

Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for he abides with you, and shall be in you.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me;

But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.

But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming.

Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.

and I sanctify myself for them, that they also may be sanctified by truth.

Pilate therefore said to him, Thou art then a king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest it, that I am a king. I have been born for this, and for this I have come into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault whatever in him.

For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city

And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter words of truth and soberness;

For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things.

But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth;

But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.

The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.

For if I shall desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think as to me above what he sees me to be, or whatever he may hear of me.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

in whom ye also have trusted, having heard the word of the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;

Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

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

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;

on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,

which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.

Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.

men who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith of some.

in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth,

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, and knowledge of the truth which is according to piety;

not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing them and established in the present truth.

and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

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

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

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

Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him --

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth,

Grace shall be with you, mercy, peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brethren came and bore testimony to thy holding fast the truth, even as thou walkest in truth.

I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.

Demetrius has witness borne to him by all, and by the truth itself; and we also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness is true.