But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—
For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,
because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,
which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,
and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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