48 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

and the truth shall make you free.'

I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

'But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

and they having come, say to him, 'Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men, but in truth the way of God dost teach; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? may we give, or may we not give?'

And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now;

For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.

and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.

and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

Who have said to seers, 'Ye do not see,' And to prophets, 'Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

if we may say -- 'we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Pilate, therefore, said to him, 'Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, 'Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind -- it is to you,

but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

Jesus answered him, 'If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, 'That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

The delight of kings are righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,

but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.

Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

'Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.