What Does the Bible Say About Truth?

John 14:6 ESV / 43 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.

John 17:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 16:13 ESV / 35 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 8:32 ESV / 35 helpful votes

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

Galatians 4:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Jeremiah 9:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

John 3:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 14 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 17:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 12 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.

Isaiah 59:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

2 John 1:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

1 John 1:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

John 1:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 59:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

Psalm 57:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

John 8:44 ESV / 8 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 has nothing to do with 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.

Isaiah 65:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:160 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 31:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

2 Timothy 2:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 6 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.

Matthew 26:33-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.

Hosea 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Isaiah 25:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Psalm 111:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;

Psalm 85:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

2 Samuel 2:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

Titus 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good.

2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

John 18:37 ESV / 5 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.”

John 14:17 ESV / 5 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.

Daniel 4:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Jeremiah 9:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

Proverbs 20:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.

Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Psalm 108:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Revelation 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!”

Revelation 15:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!

2 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Ephesians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Romans 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

John 8:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

John 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

John 4:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

John 1:14 ESV / 4 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.

Luke 1:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.

Zechariah 8:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

Zechariah 8:16 ESV / 4 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;

Micah 7:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Jeremiah 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

Isaiah 59:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 38:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.

Proverbs 23:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

John 18:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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 146:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;

Psalm 138:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

Psalm 96:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Psalm 91:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

Psalm 89:49 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

Psalm 89:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Psalm 85:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.

Psalm 71:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 57:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

Psalm 50:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ...

Psalm 40:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.

Psalm 25:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 19:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

2 Chronicles 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.

2 Kings 20:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Kings 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 1:1-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not. Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ...

1 Samuel 12:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.

Joshua 24:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Exodus 34:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Exodus 18:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Genesis 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

1 John 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

2 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Galatians 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

2 Corinthians 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

2 Corinthians 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;

2 Corinthians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

Romans 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.

Hosea 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

Daniel 10:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

Jeremiah 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?

Psalm 98:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

Bible Verses about Truth