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100 Bible Verses about Telling The Truth

John 14:6 ESV / 8,393 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.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 7,888 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 7,099 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.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 6,614 helpful votes

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

John 8:44 ESV / 6,461 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 4:25 ESV / 6,027 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.

John 8:32 ESV / 6,026 helpful votes

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

John 4:24 ESV / 5,152 helpful votes

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

John 8:31-32 ESV / 5,116 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.”

John 1:14 ESV / 5,082 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 / 5,024 helpful votes

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

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 4,944 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.

James 1:18 ESV / 4,861 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.

Zechariah 8:16 ESV / 4,767 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 17:17 ESV / 4,640 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

James 5:12 ESV / 4,118 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.

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 3,913 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 3,832 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 3,766 helpful votes

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

3 John 1:4 ESV / 3,688 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 3,587 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:20 ESV / 3,538 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.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 3,524 helpful votes

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

Psalm 5:6 ESV / 3,372 helpful votes

You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 3,313 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Psalm 15:2-3 ESV / 3,272 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;

John 16:13 ESV / 3,248 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.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3,235 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.

Psalm 119:160 ESV / 3,190 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:27 ESV / 3,172 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.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 3,132 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 2,970 helpful votes

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

Galatians 4:16 ESV / 2,954 helpful votes

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

John 16:7 ESV / 2,902 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.

John 15:26 ESV / 2,809 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.

Psalm 119:30 ESV / 2,755 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 2,742 helpful votes

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

John 1:17 ESV / 2,729 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:8 ESV / 2,704 helpful votes

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

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2,700 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Ephesians 6:14 ESV / 2,686 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 2,672 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 10:32 ESV / 2,648 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:24 ESV / 2,524 helpful votes

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

John 14:17 ESV / 2,512 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 3:9-10 ESV / 2,427 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Jeremiah 13:25 ESV / 2,324 helpful votes

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 2,298 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 2,271 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 2,263 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?

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 2,261 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

1 John 1:1-10 ESV / 2,234 helpful votes

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ...

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 2,234 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Psalm 15:2 ESV / 2,233 helpful votes

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

John 18:37 ESV / 2,228 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.”

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 2,156 helpful votes

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

Titus 1:2 ESV / 2,097 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-6 ESV / 2,077 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.

Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 2,035 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

John 18:37-38 ESV / 2,029 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.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 1,932 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Ephesians 4:21 ESV / 1,872 helpful votes

Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

1 Timothy 2:7 ESV / 1,758 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.

Psalm 43:3 ESV / 1,715 helpful votes

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,710 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 8:46 ESV / 1,698 helpful votes

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

Luke 12:2 ESV / 1,693 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 1,669 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 1,645 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.

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 1,609 helpful votes

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

John 17:3 ESV / 1,506 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 4:2 ESV / 1,504 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,497 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Matthew 22:16 ESV / 1,487 helpful votes

And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.

Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV / 1,482 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.

Psalm 15:1-2 ESV / 1,473 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 1,466 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1,404 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.

Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 1,399 helpful votes

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Malachi 2:13-16 ESV / 1,391 helpful votes

And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1,382 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 1,370 helpful votes

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1,364 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.

Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 1,354 helpful votes

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1,351 helpful votes

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

John 1:1-6:71 ESV / 1,351 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. ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1,346 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 1:1-4:54 ESV / 1,344 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 1:1-14:31 ESV / 1,338 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 5:1-20:31 ESV / 1,336 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?” ...

Acts 5:1-11 ESV / 1,324 helpful votes

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...

John 17:8 ESV / 1,324 helpful votes

For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 1,320 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:18 ESV / 1,315 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 1,307 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:1-24:34 ESV / 1,295 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. ...

Psalm 119:1-130:8 ESV / 1,258 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! ...

1 John 2:4 ESV / 1,213 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Proverbs 14:25 ESV / 1,203 helpful votes

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

Proverbs 14:1-15:33 ESV / 1,202 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. ...

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