Truth

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Exodus 18:21 OT

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Proverbs 20:28 OT

  Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

• Proverbs 12:17 OT

  He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

• Proverbs 12:19 OT

  Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

• Proverbs 12:22 OT

  Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

• Hosea 4:1 OT

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Jeremiah 9:5 OT

  Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

• Isaiah 59:14 OT

  Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

• Isaiah 59:15 OT

  Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

• Isaiah 59:4 OT

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Jeremiah 9:3 OT

  “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:9 OT

  Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?

• John 1:17 NT

  For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

• John 18:37 NT

  Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the…

• Romans 9:1 NT

  I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

• John 5:33 NT

  You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

• Titus 1:1 NT

  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

• John 17:19 NT

  For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

• 1 Peter 1:22 NT

  Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

• Ephesians 6:14 NT

  Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

• Jeremiah 33:6 OT

  ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

• 2 John 1:1 NT

  The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

• 2 Timothy 2:25 NT

  in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:12 NT

  that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.