'Truth' in the Bible

So now, if you wish to show gracious love and truth toward my master, tell me so. But if not, tell me, so that I may go elsewhere."

One of you is to be sent back so he can get your brother while the rest of you remain in custody. That way, we'll test whether or not you're telling the truth. If you're not, as surely as the Pharaoh lives, you're spies!"

The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and filled with gracious love and truth.

"The daughters of Zelophehad are telling the truth. You are certainly to give to them a possession for an inheritance among their father's relatives. You are to pass on the inheritance of their father to them.

When it is reported to you or you hear of it, then investigate it thoroughly. When the truth has been established that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

"Now you must fear the LORD and serve him in faithfulness and truth. Throw away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Instead, serve the LORD.

It seems only yesterday that you arrived, so should I make you wander around with us while I go wherever I can? Go back, and take your brothers with you. May gracious love and truth accompany you!"

The woman responded to Elijah, "Now at last I've really learned that you are a man of God and that what you have to say about the LORD is the truth."

When he heard this, the king asked him, "How many times do I have to make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth? Now do it in the name of the LORD!"

When he heard this, the king asked him, "How many times do I have to ask you? Tell me nothing but the truth, and do it in the name of the LORD!"

The truth can be painful, but what has your argument proven?

But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.

The one who lives with integrity, who does righteous deeds, and who speaks truth to himself.

Guide me in your truth and teach me; for you are the God who delivers me. All day long I have waited for you.

All the paths of the LORD lead to gracious love and truth for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

For your gracious love precedes me, and I continuously walk according to your truth.

Into your hands I commit my spirit; for you have redeemed me, LORD God of truth.

Your gracious love, LORD, reaches to the heavens; your truth extends to the skies.

Send forth your light and your truth so they may guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places.

In your majesty ride forth for the cause of truth, humility, and righteousness; and your strong right hand will teach you awesome things.

Indeed, you are pleased with truth in the inner person, and you will teach me wisdom in my innermost parts.

He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

He will send help from heaven to deliver me from those who harass and despise me. Interlude God will send his gracious love and truth.

For your gracious love is great, extending even to the heavens, and your truth even to the skies.

But you have given a banner to those who fear you, so they may display it in honor of truth. Interlude

May he be enthroned before God forever; Appoint your gracious love and truth to guard him.

Gracious love and truth meet; righteousness and peace kiss.

Truth sprouts up from the ground, while righteousness looks down from the sky.

Teach me your ways, LORD, that I may walk in your truth; let me wholeheartedly revere your name.

Righteousness and justice make up the foundation of your throne; gracious love and truth meet before you.

With his feathers he will cover you, under his wings you will find safety. His truth is your shield and armor.

sustained through all eternity, and fashioned in both truth and righteousness.

The sum of your word is truth, and each righteous ordinance of yours is everlasting. Sin/Shin

I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth,

Do not let gracious love and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,

For my mouth speaks the truth wickedness is detestable to me.

The truth teller speaks what is right, but the false witness speaks what is deceitful.

Won't those who plot evil go astray? But gracious love and truth are for those who plan what is good.

Iniquity is atoned for by gracious love and truth, and through fear of the LORD people turn from evil.

Gracious love and truth preserve a king; through love his throne is made secure.

Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them.

LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for you have done marvelous things, plans made long ago in faithfulness and truth.

A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won't snuff out. He'll bring forth justice for the truth.

I didn't speak in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I didn't say to Jacob's descendants, "Seek me in chaos.' I, the LORD, speak truth, declaring what is right.

"Listen to this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who have come forth from Judah's loins; you who swear oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth, nor in good faith.

I'll drive back justice, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth has fallen in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Truth is missing, and whoever turns away from evil becomes a prey." "Then the LORD looked, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

If you swear, "as surely as the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast."

"Wander through the streets of Jerusalem. Look and investigate; search through her squares and see whether you find anyone even one person there doing justice and seeking truth. Then I'll forgive them.

LORD, don't your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they didn't flinch. You brought them to an end, but they refused to receive discipline. They made their faces harder than stone, and they refused to repent.

You will say to them, "This is the nation that wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD its God and wouldn't accept correction. Truth has perished; it has been eliminated from their discussions.'

They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD.

People deceive their friends, and they don't tell the truth. They have taught their tongues to tell lies. They exhaust themselves practicing evil.

You plant them and they take root, they grow and bear fruit. "You are near to us," they say with their mouths, but the truth is that you're far from their hearts.

Because of the transgression, the Heavenly Army will be given over, along with the regular burnt offering, and in that rebellion truth will be cast to the ground, while he continues to prosper and to act."

As it's written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has befallen us, but we still haven't sought the LORD our God by turning from our lawlessness to pay attention to your truth.

I'll inform you about what has been recorded in the Book of Truth. No one stands firmly with me against these opponents, except Michael your prince.

""Now I'll tell you the truth: Pay attention! Three more kings will arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain more than them all. As soon as he gains power by means of his wealth, he'll stir up everyone against the Grecian kingdoms.

"Hear this message from the LORD, people of Israel. Indeed, the LORD brings a charge against the people who live in the land for there is no truth and no gracious love or knowledge of God in the land.

"This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and I will live in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem will be called, "The City of Truth" and the mountain of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will be called, "The Holy Mountain".'

Here's what you must do: tell the truth to your neighbors, administer true and peaceful justice in your courtrooms,

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The fasts that occur in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will be joyful and glad times for the house of Judah, replete with cheerful festivals. Therefore, love truth and peace.'"

So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward fearfully, fell down trembling in front of him, and told him the whole truth.

Then the scribe told him, "Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that "God is one, and there is no other besides him.'

I'm telling you the truth there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when it didn't rain for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land.

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

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

You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

"Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.

It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

Pilate asked him, "What is "truth'?" and then he went out to the Jewish leaders again and told them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe,

Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.

They exchanged God's truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Now we know that God's judgment against those who act like this is based on truth.

but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.

an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law

I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit.

For I tell you that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God's truth in order to confirm the promises given to our ancestors,

is never glad with sin; she's always glad to side with truth, and pleased that truth will win.

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

As surely as the truth of the Messiah is in me, my boasting will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.