37 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

Have I then turned into an enemy to you, because I tell you the truth?

But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

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

I do not write to you because you do not know it, but because you do know it.

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

and for which purpose I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am telling the truth, I am not lying, -- a teacher of the heathen in the realm of faith and truth.

And they came up and said to Him, "We know that you always tell the truth, and pay no personal consideration to anyone, but teach the way of God honestly. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

In writing you this, I swear before God, I am telling you the solemn truth.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.

So you must lay aside falsehood and each of you practice telling the truth to his neighbor, for we are parts of one another.

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

The man who saw it has testified to it -- and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth -- in order that you too may come to believe it.

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

I am telling the truth as a Christian man. I am telling no lie, because my conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit is bearing me witness to this fact,

Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

We are children of God. Whoever knows God by experience listens to us; whoever is not a child of God does not listen to us. This is the way to distinguish a true spiritual utterance from one that is false.

My brothers, if any one of you has wandered away from the truth, and someone brings him back,

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

Whoever says, "I know Him," but does not practice obedience to His commands is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;

Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Then Pilate said to Him, "So you are a king then?" Jesus answered, "Certainly I am a king. For this very purpose I was born, for this very purpose I have come into the world, to testify for truth. Everybody who is a friend of truth listens to my voice."

who have missed the truth by saying that the resurrection has already taken place, are undermining some people's faith.

For if I did go crazy, it was for God's glory; and if I am keeping my head cool, it is for your good.

But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, on oath tell what it is, but if what I have said is true, why do you slap me?"

Not at all. Let God prove true, though every man be false! As the Scripture says, "That you may prove yourself upright in words you speak, and win your case when you go into court."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

and they will cease to listen to the truth and will turn to listen to myths.

for we cannot keep from telling what we have seen and heard."

for the product of light consists in practicing everything that is good and right and true;

If we claim "We are already free from sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in our hearts.

But he answered, 'I positively say to you, I do not know you.'