48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Am I so greatly, therefore, become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

And because I tell you the truth, therefore ye believe me not.

and ye shall know the truth: And the truth shall make you free."

I wrote not unto you, as though ye knew not the truth: but as unto them them that know it, and know also how that no lie cometh of truth.

"Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not away, that comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof.

whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle - I tell the truth in Christ and lie not - being the teacher of the gentiles in faith and verity.

And as soon as they were come, they said unto him, "Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: For thou considerest not the degree of men, but teachest the way of God truly: Is it lawful to pay tribute to Caesar, or not?

The things which I write, behold, God knoweth I lie not.

Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah.

I have yet many things to say unto you, But ye cannot bear them away now.

For my throat shall be talking of the truth, and my lips abhor ungodliness.

Wherefore, put away lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbor, forasmuch as we are members one of another.

Now the things that ye shall do, are these: Speak every man the truth unto his neighbour, execute judgment truly, and peaceably within your ports,

But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ,

But now ye go about to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I have heard of God: This did not Abraham.

A just man will tell the truth, and show the thing that is right; but a false witness deceiveth.

And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true. And he knoweth that he saith true that ye might believe also.

Howbeit, when he is once come - I mean the spirit of truth - he will lead you into all truth. He shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come.

I say the truth in Christ, and lie not, in that whereof my conscience beareth me witness in the holy ghost,

A true mouth is ever constant; but a dissembling tongue is soon changed.

They dare say to the Prophets, "See not," and unto them that be clear of judgment, "Tell us of nothing for to come, but speak friendly words unto us, and preach us false things.

"Which of you can rebuke me of sin? If I say the truth, why do not ye believe me?

We be of God, and he that knoweth God heareth us: and he that is not of God, heareth us not. And hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

Brethren if any of you err from the truth, and another convert him,

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and yet walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

He that saith, "I know him," and yet keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the verity is not in him.

Jesus said unto him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. And no man cometh unto the father, but by me.

Pilate said unto him, "Art thou a King then?" Jesus answered, "Thou sayest that I am a King. For this cause was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. And all that are of the truth hear my voice."

which as concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and do destroy the faith of divers persons.

For if we be too fervent, to God are we too fervent: if we keep measure, for your cause keep we measure.

But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds might be known, how that they are wrought in God."

Jesus answered him, "If I have evil spoken, bear witness of the evil: if I have well spoken, why smitest thou me?"

God forbid. Let God be true, and all men liars, as it is written, "That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and shouldest overcome when thou art judged."

Righteous lips are pleasant unto kings; and they love him that speaketh the truth.

Nevertheless, I will show thee the thing that is fast noted in the scripture of truth. And as for all yonder matters, there is none that helpeth me in them, but Michael your prince.

Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you: Yer Abraham was, I am."

The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb; as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.

My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:

Verily, verily I say unto you, the time shall come, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God. And they that hear, shall live.

and shall turn their ears from the truth, and shall be given unto fables:

For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard."

For the fruit of the spirit is, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

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

But he answered, and said, 'Verily I say unto you: I know you not.'

"'Ye shall not steal, neither lie, neither deal falsely one with another.