Today the meaning of the word “truth” has often come to refer to either “something honest or factual,” or to someone’s personal worldview. In the following verses of the Bible, truth is used in the deeper sense of “a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality.”
We should seek truth.
Psalm 25:5: Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
1 Timothy 2:3–4 CSB: This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
God’s Word is truth.
Psalm 119:151 NKJV: You are near, O Lord, And all Your commandments are truth.
John 17:17: Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
God has promised to reveal His truth to us.
John 8:31–32: So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 16:13: When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Jesus is truth.
John 1:14: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 14:6: Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Truth is pervasive and timeless.
Psalm 119:160 NKJV: The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
Psalm 100:5 NKJV: For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.