Truth is under attack in the Church. It’s been diluted by many Christians. The Bible, however, is firm about truth. There are many Bible verses about truth. Let’s uncover a few dozen together.
Truth is objective. The idea that we all have our own truth is ludicrous. Lies are vicious but they are not the key component of the attack on truth. It’s a much deeper and more subtle attack. The basic foundation of truth is being carpet-bombed. We must resist the attacks on truth.
Fortunately, we have hundreds of bible verses about truth to give us hope and to help us in this battle.
Bible Verses About Truth in the Psalms
Psalm 25:5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you, I wait all the day long.
Truth is vital for learning.
Psalm 45:4 In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!
Truth goes hand-in-hand with humility and righteousness.
Psalm 119:60 The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
We have truth on our side. The word is inerrant and infallible.
Bible Verses About Truth in the Proverbs
Proverbs 12:17 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.
Proverbs 14:25 A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is deceitful.
Speaking the truth saves lives.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Bible Verses About Truth in the Prophets
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Jeremiah 5:3 Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Amos 5:10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
Zechariah 8:19 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”
Bible Verses About Truth in the Gospels
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Worship In Spirit And Truth
John 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
The Truth Will Set You Free
John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
We must know the truth before we can be set free. The word “know” is not a simple mental understanding but an intimate knowledge.
The Way The Truth The Life
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus made many “I AM” statements. Here is an article outlining each of them.
The Spirit of Truth
John 14:16-17 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all packed into one bible verse about truth.
John 15:26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—He will testify about Me.
The Holy Spirit is known as the advocate and the Spirit of Truth.
John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come.
The Word Is Truth
John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
We are sanctified, or set apart, by the Word.
What Is Truth?
Pilate lead the charge when he questioned the truth. Regrettably, many others are following in his footsteps.
It’s time for the Church to reclaim the academic and educational high ground! Ignorance is not bliss.
John 18:37-38 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this, he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
Pilate, a learned man, fell prey to the zeitgeist and cancel culture.
Bible Verses About Truth in the Pauline Epistles
Romans 1:18-19 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them because God has made it plain to them.
Romans 1:24-25 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
I Corinthians 13:6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
Galatians 4:16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 5:7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
2 Thessalonians 2:10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
I Timothy 2:3-5 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
Bible Verses About Truth in the General Epistles
Hebrews 10:26-27 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.
I Peter 1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.
2 Peter 2:2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
I John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
I John 4:6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
2 John 1:4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
A Final Word
Take a stand about truth. Science and logic reinforce the existence of God. We, in an attempt to be kind, have allowed professors, atheists, social justice warriors to trample truth.
Stand tall.
Dig deep in the Bible.
Stand firm.
Ephesians 6:14-15 Stand, therefore, with truth like a belt around your waist, righteousness like armor on your chest, and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace.