For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
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ἀλήθεια
G225 · alḗtheia · al-ay'-thi-a · Greek
Strong’s definition
truth
KJV usage
:--true, X truly, truth, verity.
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Mapped occurrences
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;