37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

And you find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."

You all know--But I am not writing to you because you do not know the Truth, but because you do know it, and because nothing false can come from the Truth.

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

and it was for this that I was myself appointed a Herald and an Apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie)--a Teacher of the Gentiles in the Faith and Truth.

These men came to him and said: "Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and are not afraid of any one, for you pay no regard to a man's position, but teach the Way of God honestly; are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not?

(As to what I am now writing to you, I call God to witness that I am speaking the truth).

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

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, 'you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.' For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.

But holding the truth in a spirit of love, we shall grow into complete union with him who is our Head--Christ himself.

But, as it is, you are seeking to put me to death--a man who has told you the Truth as he heard it from God. Abraham did not act in that way.

This is the statement of one who actually saw it--and his statement may be relied upon, and he knows that he is speaking the truth--and it is given in order that you also may be convinced.

Yet when he--The Spirit of Truth--comes, he will guide you into all Truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of all that he hears; and he will tell you of the things that are to come.

I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by the Holy Spirit,

Which of you can convict me of sin? Why then do not you believe me, if I am speaking truth?

We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.

My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again,

If we say that we have communion with him, and yet continue to live in the Darkness, we lie, and are not living the Truth.

The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

"So you are a King after all!" exclaimed Pilate. "Yes, it is true I am a King," answered Jesus. "I was born for this, I have come into the world for this--to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice."

They have gone completely astray as regards the Truth; they say that a resurrection has already taken place, and so upset some people's faith.

For, if we were "beside ourselves," it was in God's service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!

But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

"If I said anything wrong, give evidence about it," replied Jesus; "but if not, why do you strike me?"

God must prove true, though every man prove a liar! As Scripture says of God-'That thou mayest be pronounced righteous in what thou sayest, and gain thy cause when men would judge thee.'

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "before Abraham existed I was."

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the Dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.

They will turn a deaf ear to the Truth, and give their attention to legends instead.

Judge for yourselves, for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard."

For the outcome of life in the Light may be seen in every form of goodness, righteousness, and sincerity--

If we say that there is no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth has no place in us.

But the bridegroom answered 'I tell you, I do not know you.'