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100 Bible Verses about Authenticity

John 14:6 ESV / 1,815 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1,532 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

John 1:14 ESV / 1,457 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 1,453 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 1,441 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 1,340 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

James 1:18 ESV / 1,305 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

John 4:24 ESV / 1,287 helpful votes

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

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 1,200 helpful votes

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

John 17:17 ESV / 1,196 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 8:32 ESV / 1,191 helpful votes

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

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 1,146 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 1,047 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

John 16:13 ESV / 1,044 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 8:44 ESV / 1,034 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1,028 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 989 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 969 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 John 2:27 ESV / 941 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 937 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 935 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

John 3:3 ESV / 932 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

1 John 5:20 ESV / 887 helpful votes

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 881 helpful votes

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

James 5:12 ESV / 877 helpful votes

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 872 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 852 helpful votes

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

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 830 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Psalm 119:160 ESV / 828 helpful votes

The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 822 helpful votes

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 821 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

John 1:17 ESV / 790 helpful votes

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 789 helpful votes

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

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 789 helpful votes

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 788 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Ephesians 6:14 ESV / 778 helpful votes

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Psalm 119:30 ESV / 774 helpful votes

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.

John 15:26 ESV / 772 helpful votes

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 18:37-38 ESV / 770 helpful votes

Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.

Psalm 15:2-3 ESV / 770 helpful votes

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

1 Corinthians 13:4-6 ESV / 763 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

John 16:2 ESV / 757 helpful votes

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

1 Kings 17:24 ESV / 755 helpful votes

And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”

Proverbs 10:32 ESV / 746 helpful votes

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

John 18:37 ESV / 736 helpful votes

Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 732 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 722 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 16:7 ESV / 702 helpful votes

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Proverbs 4:24 ESV / 672 helpful votes

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 670 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 668 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 14:3 ESV / 668 helpful votes

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 667 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 665 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV / 664 helpful votes

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

1 John 4:6 ESV / 661 helpful votes

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 657 helpful votes

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Ephesians 5:9 ESV / 643 helpful votes

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

John 3:16 ESV / 623 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 15:2 ESV / 622 helpful votes

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

John 10:30 ESV / 619 helpful votes

I and the Father are one.”

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 616 helpful votes

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Luke 12:2 ESV / 614 helpful votes

Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

John 1:1-14:31 ESV / 607 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

John 1:1-6:71 ESV / 606 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

John 1:1-4:54 ESV / 606 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

John 15:3 ESV / 595 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

John 5:1-20:31 ESV / 583 helpful votes

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

John 1:1 ESV / 575 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 119:1-130:8 ESV / 570 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

John 4:2 ESV / 566 helpful votes

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

1 Corinthians 13:6-7 ESV / 565 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 558 helpful votes

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Romans 8:29 ESV / 555 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Proverbs 4:1-24:34 ESV / 554 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Proverbs 14:1-15:33 ESV / 547 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 546 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 536 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 517 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 516 helpful votes

Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 512 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 502 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Proverbs 30:2 ESV / 498 helpful votes

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

John 3:18 ESV / 490 helpful votes

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Psalm 33:2 ESV / 487 helpful votes

Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!

Psalm 25:2 ESV / 460 helpful votes

O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 438 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

1 John 4:1 ESV / 422 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 366 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 360 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Psalm 119:142 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 349 helpful votes

“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Zechariah 8:16 ESV / 346 helpful votes

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

John 14:17 ESV / 345 helpful votes

Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Colossians 1:5-6 ESV / 344 helpful votes

Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,

John 1:18 ESV / 344 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Proverbs 12:1-22:29 ESV / 344 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...

Amos 3:7 ESV / 343 helpful votes

“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Psalm 37:29 ESV / 342 helpful votes

The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever.

Psalm 18:30 ESV / 320 helpful votes

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

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