Truth and honesty

Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

¹⁴ Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

¹⁵ Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

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

An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.

The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.

¹⁶ These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

¹⁷ do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.

¹⁸ Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

¹⁹ “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹⁷ Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

¹⁸ As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

¹⁹ For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

² By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”

But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever my God tells me.”

⁹ Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

¹⁰ and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

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

¹⁹ And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

²¹ But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”

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

³⁷ “Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”

³⁸ “What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.

³ Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

⁴ Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”

But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

¹⁵ Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.

¹⁶ Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”

Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”

For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.

“Tell me,” said Peter, “is this the price you and your husband got for the land?” “Yes,” she answered, “that is the price.”

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”

⁸ For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.

⁹ For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”