The best Bible verses for truth (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for truth (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining."1 John 2:8
"At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining."1 John 2:8
"I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth."1 John 2:21
"We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error."1 John 4:6
"This is he who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth."1 John 5:6
"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,"1 Peter 1:22
"For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth."1 Timothy 2:7
"if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth."1 Timothy 3:15
"who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."1 Timothy 4:3
"If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed."1 Timothy 4:6
"and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain."1 Timothy 6:5
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for truth (ESV) are 1 John 2:8, 1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:21. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to truth (ESV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for truth (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.