Bible on Truth

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.