48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth?

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

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

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because lies don't come from truth.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

For this reason I was appointed to be an announcer, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the gentiles. (I am telling you the truth. I am not lying.)

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

(Before God, what I'm writing to you is the truth.)

You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

For my mouth speaks the truth wickedness is detestable to me.

Therefore, stripping off falsehood, "let each of us speak the truth to his neighbor," for we belong to one another.

Here's what you must do: tell the truth to your neighbors, administer true and peaceful justice in your courtrooms,

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

The truth teller speaks what is right, but the false witness speaks what is deceitful.

The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe,

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit.

A truthful saying is trusted forever, but the liar only for a moment.

They say to the seers, "Don't see visions,' and to the prophets, "Don't give us visions of what is right! Instead, tell us welcome things, prophesy illusions,

Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

The one who lives with integrity, who does righteous deeds, and who speaks truth to himself.

My brothers, if one of you wanders away from the truth and somebody brings him back,

If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

The person who says, "I have come to know him," but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.

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

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

They have abandoned the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already taken place, and so they destroy the faith of others.

So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Of course not! God is true, even if everyone else is a liar. As it is written, "You are right when you speak, and win your case when you go into court."

Kings take pleasure in righteous speech; they treasure a person who speaks what is upright.

I'll inform you about what has been recorded in the Book of Truth. No one stands firmly with me against these opponents, except Michael your prince.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"

The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths.

for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and we're not being truthful to ourselves.

"But he replied, "I tell all of you with certainty, I don't know you!'

"You are not to steal or lie or deal falsely with your neighbor.