The word in Scripture

Truth in the Bible

The word truth appears 237 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Truth is what is real and trustworthy, grounded in the God who cannot lie. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What truth means in the Bible

Truth is what is real and trustworthy, grounded in the God who cannot lie.

Where the word truth appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word truth appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.”Psalms 25:5

“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?”Psalms 30:9

“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”Isaiah 38:18

“None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”Isaiah 59:4

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”John 1:14

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”John 14:6

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;”Romans 1:18

“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”Romans 3:7