37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?

It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

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

I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie has any connexion with the truth.

Yet ??I am telling you the truth ??my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

(I am writing you the sheer truth, I swear it before God!)

I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now.

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

but now you want to kill me ??to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.

He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come.

I am telling the truth in Christ ??it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit

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

we belong to God ??he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth;

He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him;

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.

'I am beside myself,' am I? Well, that is between myself and God. I am 'sane,' am I? Well, that is in your interests;

whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

"If I have said anything wrong," replied Jesus, "prove it; if I said what was true, why strike me?"

Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious ??as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

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

If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

but he replied, 'I tell you frankly, I do not know you.'