'Truth' in the Bible

But we did not give up and submit to these people for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.

But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

You were running well. Who prevented you from obeying the truth?

When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

assuming you heard about Him and were taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus.

you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

Stand, therefore,with truth like a belt around your waist,righteousness like armor on your chest,

In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained.

because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the message of truth, the gospel

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but enjoyed unrighteousness.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

They have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overturning the faith of some.

instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.

always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to build up the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

and may not pay attention to Jewish myths and the commands of men who reject the truth.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have.

Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them.

If we say, “We have fellowship with Him,” yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” yet doesn"t keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.

This is how we will know we belong to the truth and will convince our conscience in His presence,

We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

Jesus Christ—He is the One who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

The Elder:To the elect lady and her children: I love all of you in the truth—and not only I, but also all who have come to know the truth—

because of the truth that remains in us and will be with us forever.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth, in keeping with a command we have received from the Father.

The Elder:To my dear friend Gaius: I love you in the truth.

For I was very glad when some brothers came and testified to your faithfulness to the truth—how you are walking in the truth.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Therefore, we ought to support such men so that we can be coworkers with the truth.

Demetrius has a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. And we also testify for him, and you know that our testimony is true.