Reference: Truth
Easton
Used in various senses in Scripture. In Pr 12:17,19, it denotes that which is opposed to falsehood. In Isa 59:14-15; Jer 7:28, it means fidelity or truthfulness. The doctrine of Christ is called "the truth of the gospel" (Ga 2:5), "the truth" (2Ti 3:7; 4:4). Our Lord says of himself, "I am the way, and the truth" (Joh 14:6).
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Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.
The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.
And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter, And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.
And thou hast said unto them: This is the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,
and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
Hastings
TRUTH
1. In OT ('?meth, '?m
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and it cometh to pass as he hath drawn near to enter Egypt, that he saith unto Sarai his wife, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have known that thou art a woman of beautiful appearance;
and Abraham saith concerning Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister;' and Abimelech king of Gerar sendeth and taketh Sarah.
and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he saith, 'She is my sister:' for he hath been afraid to say, 'My wife -- lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she is of good appearance.'
And he cometh in unto his father, and saith, 'My father;' and he saith, 'Here am I; who art thou, my son?'
I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
And all the people are seeing the voices, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and the people see, and move, and stand afar off,
and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:
The Rock! -- perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.
'Moses my servant is dead, and now, rise, pass over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.
be strong and courageous, for thou -- thou dost cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.
I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth. I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.
As to Thy majesty -- prosper! -- ride! Because of truth, and meekness -- righteousness, And Thy right hand showeth Thee fearful things.
The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.
An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.
Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.
Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.
And the host is given up, with the continual sacrifice, through transgression, and it throweth down truth to the earth, and it hath worked, and prospered.
as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth.
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come; God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'
and the truth shall make you free.' They answered him, 'Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'
and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;
sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth; as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world; read more. and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.
Pilate, therefore, said to him, 'Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, 'Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
Pilate, therefore, said to him, 'Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, 'Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.' Pilate saith to him, 'What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, 'I do find no fault in him;
for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,
For we -- wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,
having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
Morish
Throughout the scriptures there is that which God designates as 'the truth.' It is divine, and above the opinions of men, however wise and pious they may be. In the O.T. the admonition is given, "Buy the truth and sell it not." Pr 23:23. 'The truth' must refer to God, who is true, but is not called 'the truth:' hence it comprises all that may be known of God, whether declared by creation or made known by revelation. Truth is not simply that which is held as dogma, but must be received in the soul. Paul asked the Galatians who had hindered them that they should not obey 'the truth?' Ga 5:7. Judgement is coming upon Christendom "because they received not the love of 'the truth' that they might be saved." 2Th 2:10. Truth is the real way of liberty: "the truth shall make you free." Joh 8:32,36. Truth cannot be separated from the Lord Jesus, who is "the way, the truth, and the life." This is objectively; subjectively the Spirit is the truth as having come from the glorified Christ. In the three Epistles of John 'the truth' is constantly referred to, and a Christian woman is warned not to receive any one into her house, nor wish him God-speed unless he holds the doctrines taught by the apostles
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Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
and the truth shall make you free.'
if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?
and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,
Watsons
TRUTH is used,
1. In opposition to falsehood, lies, or deceit, Pr 12:17, &c.
2. It signifies fidelity, sincerity, and punctuality in keeping promises; and to truth taken in this sense is generally joined mercy or kindness, as in Ge 24:27, and other places of Scripture.
3. Truth is put for the true doctrine of the Gospel, Ga 1:4. Truth is put for the substance of the types and ceremonies of the law, Joh 1:17.
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and saith, 'Blessed is Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord; -- I being in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.'
Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,