Lexicon :: Strong's G227 - alēthēs

So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You don’t care what anyone thinks nor do you show partiality.[fn]

When they came, they said to him, “Teacher, we know you are truthful and don’t care what anyone thinks, nor do you show partiality but teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we? ”

The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true.

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

“The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

So the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

“And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him ​— ​these things I tell the world.”

Many came to him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what the angel did was really happening, but he thought he was seeing a vision.

Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That you may be justified in your words

and triumph when you judge.

through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet true;

Finally[fn] brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable ​— ​if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy ​— ​dwell on these things.

This testimony is true. For this reason, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith

Through Silvanus,[fn] a faithful brother (as I consider him), I have written to you briefly in order to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”

Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie; just as it has taught you,[fn] remain in him.

Everyone speaks well of Demetrius ​— ​even the truth itself. And we also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.