Powerful Bible Verses about Truth and Honesty

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part, You will make me to know wisdom.

He who walks with integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will become known.

These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds.

For “He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.”

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies will not escape.

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

So that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth.

But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

In hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth. Unite my heart to fear Your name.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

You can make anything by writing.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.