36 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Have I therefore become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

But because I tell you 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 know not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

But I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].

of which I was made a herald and an apostle,?? speak the truth, I lie not,?? teacher of nations in faith and truth.

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

And what I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

I have many things yet to say to you, but you cannot bear them now;

Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God; Abraham did not do this.

He who saw has testified, and his testimony is true, for he knows that he says what is true, that you also may believe.

but when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will lead you in all the truth; for he will not speak of himself, but he will speak whatever he shall hear, and tell you things to come.

I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit,

Who of you convicts me of a sin? If I say 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.

Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one converts him,

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

He that says, I have known 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 except by me.

Then Pilate said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, As you say, I am a king. For this was I born, and for this I came into the world, that I should testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth hears my voice.

who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

For if we are beside ourselves it is for God; and if we are sober it is for you.

but he that does good comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, for they are wrought in God.

Jesus answered him, If I spoke wrong, testify of the wrong; but if well, why do you beat me?

By no means; but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou art judged.

Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, that before Abraham existed, I am.

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

I tell you most truly, that the hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those that hear shall live.

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

for we cannot but tell what we have seen and heard.

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But he answered and said, I tell you truly I know you not.