48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

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

I tell you the truth and you do not believe me.

You will know the truth and the truth will make you free!

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

Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away. For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you. (Greek: autos: it)

You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

Because of this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle. What I say is true, not false, and I am a teacher of the nations in the true faith.

Teacher, they said, we know that you are truthful, and not concerned about what other people think. You truthfully teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

What I write is true. God knows I do not lie.

You prefer evil to good. You prefer lying to speaking the truth.

I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot endure them now.

My mouth will speak truth! Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Put away falsehood. Speak truth each one of you with his neighbor: for we are members (belonging to) (together with) of one another.

These are the things that you should do. Every man should speak the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates (towns).

By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head.

You seek to kill me. I told you the truth! I heard it from God. Abraham did not do this.

He who speaks truth shows righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

He who saw testified and his testimony is true. He knows and he speaks truth that you also may believe.

When the Spirit of truth comes it will guide you to all truth for it will not speak from itself. It will speak the things it hears and declare to you the things that are to come.

I tell the truth in Christ. I do not lie! My conscience bears witness with me in Holy Spirit.

The lip of truth will be established forever. A lying tongue is only for a moment.

They say to the seers: Do not see the future. They say to those who have visions: 'Do not have visions that tell us what is right. Tell us what we want to hear. Prophesy illusions.

Which of you convicted me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe me?

We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle (spirit) of truth, and the principle (spirit) of deception (error).

The one who walks with integrity and does what is righteous. He speaks the truth in his heart.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and one brings him back,

If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live (practice) the truth.

He who says: I know him, and does not obey his commandments is a liar! The truth is not in him.

Jesus proclaimed: I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.

Pilate said: Are you a king then? Jesus answered: As you say I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this purpose, that I should bear witness to the truth! Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.

These men have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

For if we are beside ourselves (crazy) (insane) it is to God. If we are of sound mind, it is to you.

He who practices the truth comes to the light. His works are made known that they are from God.

Jesus answered him: If I spoke evil, bear witness of the evil. But if I spoke honestly, why do you strike me?

Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They love the man who speaks what is right.

But I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one standing firmly with me against these, but Michael your prince.

Jesus said: I tell you the truth, I existed before Abraham was born! (Ex 3:14, 15)

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born. They speak lies.

My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Truly I tell you, the hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear (listen) (understand) will live.

They will turn their ears away from the truth, and turn aside to myths (fiction).

We cannot stop speaking the things we have seen and heard.

for the fruit of the light (life) (spirit) consists of all goodness and righteousness and truth.

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

But he told them: 'I do not know you.'

Do not steal. Do not deal falsely. Do not lie to one another.