25 Bible Verses About Truth

In the Bible, truth belongs first to God and his word, and then to the way his people speak and love. God “is not human, that he should lie” (Numbers 23:19), Jesus prays “your word is truth” (John 17:17), and he calls himself “the truth” (John 14:6). The letters ask the same of believers: to “speak truthfully to your neighbor” (Ephesians 4:25) and to love “with actions and in truth” (1 John 3:18). In several of the Old Testament verses…