48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

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

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

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"

(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)

You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

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

for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

He who saw it has borne witness--his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth--that you also may believe.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

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

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

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

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

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

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

Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

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

Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world--to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."

Jesus answered him, "If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?"

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."

Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard."

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

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

But he answered, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.'

"You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.