Truth

Saints should worship God in

• John 4:24

  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

• Psalms 145:18

  The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Serve God in

• Joshua 24:14

  Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

• 1 Samuel 12:24

  Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

Walk in the presence of God in

• 1 Kings 2:4

  That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

• 2 Kings 20:3

  I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Keep religious feasts with

• 1 Corinthians 5:8

  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Esteem, as inestimable

• Proverbs 23:23

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

Love

• Zechariah 8:19

  Thus saith 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 joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

Rejoice in

• 1 Corinthians 13:6

  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Speak, to one another

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

• Ephesians 4:25

  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Execute judgment with

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

Meditate upon

• Philippians 4:8

  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Bind, around the neck

• Proverbs 3:3

  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Write, upon the tables of the heart

• Proverbs 3:3

  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

The fruit of the Spirit is in

• Ephesians 5:9

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

God' s servants should speak

• 2 Corinthians 12:6

  For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

• Galatians 4:16

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

Teach in

• 1 Timothy 2:7

  Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

Approve themselves by

• 2 Corinthians 6:7

  By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

• 2 Corinthians 6:8

  By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

Magistrates should be men of

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Kings are preserved by

• Proverbs 20:28

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

They who speak, show forth righteousness

• Proverbs 12:17

  He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Those who speak, are the delight of God

• Proverbs 12:22

  Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

The evil people

The gospel as, came by Christ

• John 1:17

  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Is in Christ

• 1 Timothy 2:7

  Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

John bore witness to

• John 5:33

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

Is according to godliness

• Titus 1:1

  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

Is sanctifying

• John 17:17

  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

• John 17:19

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Is purifying

• 1 Peter 1:22

  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Is part of the Christian armor

• Ephesians 6:14

  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Revealed abundantly to saints

• Jeremiah 33:6

  Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

Abides continually with saints

• 2 John 1:2

  For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

Should be acknowledged

• 2 Timothy 2:25

  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

Should be believed

• 2 Thessalonians 2:12

  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:13

  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Should be obeyed

• Romans 2:8

  But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

• Galatians 3:1

  O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Should be loved

• 2 Thessalonians 2:10

  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Should be manifested

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Should be rightly divided

• 2 Timothy 2:15

  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Evil people turn away from

• 2 Timothy 4:4

  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The wicked resist

• 2 Timothy 3:8

  Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

Evil people are destitute of

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

The ekklesia (body of Christ) is the pillar and ground of

• 1 Timothy 3:15

  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Satan is devoid of

• John 8:44

  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Of God

Unclassified scriptures relating to

• Exodus 34:6

  And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

• Deuteronomy 32:4

  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

• Psalms 31:5

  Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

• Psalms 33:4

  For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

• Psalms 40:10

  I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

• Psalms 51:6

  Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

• Psalms 57:3

  He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

• Psalms 57:10

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

• Psalms 85:10

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

• Psalms 85:11

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

• Psalms 86:15

  But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

• Psalms 89:14

  Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

• Psalms 96:13

  Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

• Psalms 98:3

  He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

• Psalms 100:5

  For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

• Psalms 108:4

  For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

• Proverbs 12:19

  The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

• Proverbs 16:13

  Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

• Isaiah 25:1

  O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

• Isaiah 59:14

  And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

• Isaiah 59:15

  Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

• Isaiah 65:16

  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.

• Jeremiah 5:3

  O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

• Daniel 4:37

  Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

• Daniel 10:21

  But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

• Micah 7:20

  Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

• John 1:14

  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

• John 8:31

  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

• John 8:32

  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

• John 14:6

  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

• John 14:17

  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

• John 16:13

  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

• John 17:17

  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

• John 17:19

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

• John 18:37

  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.

• John 18:38

  Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

• Romans 2:2

  But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.