Truth (Faithfulness)

saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.

and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,

If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,

Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign

“Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”

Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’

Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—

if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.

Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.

Now may the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness, and I will also show you the same favor because you have done this.

And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”

and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.

Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.

For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.

After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.

Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,

He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,

They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.

Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.

Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

Then I will ever sing praise to Your name and fulfill my vows day by day.

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.

The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.

Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.

He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.

They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.

For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Hallelujah!

Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.

You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are true.

The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.

By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.

to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”

As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”

Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.

And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.

The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, and it concerned a great conflict. And the understanding of the message was given to him in a vision.

But first I will tell you what is inscribed in the Book of Truth. Yet no one has the courage to support me against these, except Michael your prince.

Now then, I will tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. By the power of his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”

I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.

They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.

“Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and seek favor from no one. Indeed, You are impartial and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or not?”

“Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him,

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

“Teacher,” they inquired, “we know that You speak and teach correctly. You show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with Him, for he too is a Galilean.”

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”

But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

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

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”

“What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,

What then is the issue? Just this: that in every way, whether by false motives or true, Christ is preached. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.

who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.

who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

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

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.

The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I alone, but also all who know the truth—

because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:

Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, will be with us in truth and love.

I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth:

For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also testify for him, and you know that our testimony is true.