48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

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

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

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle -- I am telling the truth; I am not lying -- and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

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

For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

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

These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

The faithful witness tells what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit --

The one who tells the truth will endure forever, but the one who lies will last only for a moment.

They say to the visionaries, "See no more visions!" and to the seers, "Don't relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things, relate deceptive messages.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

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

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

The one who says "I have come to know God" and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

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

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people's faith.

For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

Jesus replied, "If I have said something wrong, confirm what is wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why strike me?"

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

The delight of kings is righteous counsel, and they love the one who speaks uprightly.

However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, except Michael your prince.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!"

The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

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

I tell you the solemn truth, a time 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 they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth --

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I do not know you!'

"'You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.