Topic
Telling The Truth
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Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.
be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;
`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.
and the truth shall make you free.'
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →
And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou <FI>art<Fi> the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.
having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
These <FI>are<Fi> the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,
sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;
And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.
greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.
And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!
if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth;
Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart. — read the full passage →
and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;
As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;
The sum of Thy word <FI>is<Fi> truth, And to the age <FI>is<Fi> every judgment of Thy righteousness!
and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.
For upright <FI>is<Fi> the word of Jehovah, And all His work <FI>is<Fi> in faithfulness.
so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;
The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,
Every saying of God <FI>is<Fi> tried, A shield He <FI>is<Fi> to those trusting in Him.
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →
The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!
Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,
the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →
This <FI>is<Fi> thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,
A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.
God <FI>is<Fi> not a man--and lieth, And a son of man--and repenteth! Hath He said--and doth He not do <FI>it<Fi> ? And spoken--and doth He not confirm it?
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life-- — read the full passage →
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.
Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.' — read the full passage →
for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;
if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;
in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle--truth I say in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They--they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;
Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness--deceit.
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;
(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)
A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →
and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, — read the full passage →
A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. — read the full passage →
so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →
and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →
And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. — read the full passage →
<FI> Aleph.<Fi> O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, — read the full passage →
he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down. — read the full passage →
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