34 Bible Verses about Truth

Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness,

Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

that by means of two immutable things??is promise and his oath??n which it is impossible for God to break faith, we refugees may have strong encouragement to grasp the hope set before us.

I write in hope of life eternal which God who never lies, promised before times eternal,

and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

"For it will not be you who is speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters God's truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

For I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth, as indeed you are passing your life in truth.

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.

"The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.

But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world.

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him. If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me. "How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message. "You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments. read more.
He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil. But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." "If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth." "The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him? My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth. By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth, read more.
and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God,

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God;

If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.

Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?

Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

"I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower. "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more. "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. read more.
"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned. "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours. "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples. "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love. "I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. "This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you. "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. "You are my friends if you do what I command you. "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father. "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. "This is my command. to love one another. If the worlds hates you, "do not forget that it hated me first. "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also. "But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me. "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. "He who hates me hates my Father also. "If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. "And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, 'They hate me without cause.' "When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me; "and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.

"and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. "The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you. "I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. read more.
"Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live.

"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' "but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things. "Yet?? am telling you the truth??y going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you. read more.
And he, when he comes, will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of judgment; of sin, because they do not believe in me; of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me; and of judgement, because the Prince of this world has been judged. "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them just now. But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.

So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?"

"Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well," replied the disciples.

Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation.

Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

I write in hope of life eternal which God who never lies, promised before times eternal,

If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.

Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

I write in hope of life eternal which God who never lies, promised before times eternal,

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness,

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

He must be gentle when instructing opponents; for possibly God may give them a change of mind for the recognition of the truth,

It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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

Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.

and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

The Elder to the Elect Lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth. I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever.

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

And all the people used to come him early in the morning in the Temple, to listen to him.

"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

As Paul and Barnabas left the synagogue, the people earnestly begged that these words might be repeated to them on the following Sabbath.

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

As he started to go forth into the road, a man came running up to him, and knelt down before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

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

When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs."

But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

"The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.

I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever.

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.

With many such illustrations Jesus used to tell his message to people as far as they were able to receive it;

by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense, amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true;

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.

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

To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He who believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness,

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

They were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying. "Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are thy ways, Thou King of kings!

And I heard the altar saying, "Yea, O Lord, the Almighty, True and righteous are thy judgments."

and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

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

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.