37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth
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Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?
I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.
"Yet?? am telling you the truth??y going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you.
"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.
It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not?
(In what I am now writing, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth.)
"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them just now.
So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.
"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.
And he who saw it has borne testimony, and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you may believe.
But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.
I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow
"Which one of you convicts me of sin? Why then, if I am speaking the truth, do you not believe me?
But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.
Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.
"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."
Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.
For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you.
but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."
Jesus replied "If I have said anything wrong, give evidence concerning the wrong; but if I said what was true, why do you strike me?"
By no means! Be sure that God is ever true, though all mankind prove false. As it is written, That thou mayest be found just in thine argument, And gain thy cause when thou contendest.
"In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am."
My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.
"Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.
Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.
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Matthew 22:16So they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you are honest, and that you are teaching the way of God in sincerity; and are not afraid of any one, for you do not court men's favor.
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