37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Have I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

But because I speak the truth, you believe me not.

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

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

But yet I tell you the truth: it is profitable for you that I go away. For if I go not away, the Paraclete will not come to you. But if I go away, I will send him to you.

You are of your father, the devil; and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the be ginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks that which is false, he speaks from what is his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

to give which testimony I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle; (I speak the truth, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and in truth.

And they came and said to him: Teacher, we know that you are true, and that you care for no one; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

With respect to the things which I now write to you, behold, before God I lie not.

I have yet many things to say to you; but you can not bear them now.

For which reason, putting away lying, speak, every one, truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

but speaking truthfully in love, we might grow up in all things, into him who is the head, even the Christ,

But now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God; this Abraham did not.

And he that saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth, that you may believe;

But when he, the Spirit of the truth, has come, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak of himself; but what he hears, that will he speak, and he will show you things to come.

I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back,

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Jesus said to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me.

Then Pilate said to him: You are a king, then? Jesus answered; You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I born, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might testify to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears my voice.

who, as it respects the truth, have erred, saying that the resurrection has already taken place; and they overthrow the faith of some.

For if we be beside our selves, it is for God; or, if we be of sound mind, it is for you.

But he that does the truth, comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that they are done in God.

Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you strike me?

It can not be. But let God be true, though every man be a liar, as it is written: That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I was.

My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

Verily, verily I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear, shall live.

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.

For we can not but speak the things that we have seen and heard.

(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But he answered and said: Verily I say to you, I know you not.