# ἀλήθεια (alētheia)

Strong’s G225. 99 New Testament occurrences.

truth, but not merely truth as spoken; truth of idea, reality, sincerity, truth in the moral sphere, divine truth revealed to man, straightforwardness.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/aletheia-g225

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/22/16) — And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest…
- [Mark 5:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/33) — But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
- [Mark 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/12/14) — And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest t…
- [Mark 12:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/12/32) — And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
- [Luke 4:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/4/25) — But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throu…
- [Luke 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/20/21) — And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
- [Luke 22:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/22/59) — And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.
- [John 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/1/14) — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- [John 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/1/17) — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- [John 3:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/3/21) — But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
- [John 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/4/23) — But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
- [John 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/4/24) — God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- [John 5:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/5/33) — Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
- [John 8:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/8/32) — And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- [John 8:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/8/40) — But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
- [John 8:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/8/44) — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no…
- [John 8:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/8/45) — And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
- [John 8:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/8/46) — Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
- [John 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/14/6) — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- [John 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/14/17) — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be…
- [John 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/15/26) — But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
- [John 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/16/7) — Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will…
- [John 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/16/13) — Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he…
- [John 17:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/17/17) — Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
- [John 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/17/19) — And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
- [John 18:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/18/37) — Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the…
- [John 18:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/18/38) — Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
- [Acts 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/4/27) — For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathere…
- [Acts 10:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/10/34) — Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
- [Acts 26:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/26/25) — But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
- [Romans 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/1/18) — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- [Romans 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/1/25) — Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
- [Romans 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/2/2) — But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
- [Romans 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/2/8) — But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
- [Romans 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/2/20) — An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
- [Romans 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/3/7) — For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
- [Romans 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/9/1) — I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
- [Romans 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/15/8) — Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
- [1 Corinthians 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/5/8) — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- [1 Corinthians 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/13/6) — Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
- [2 Corinthians 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/4/2) — But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth comm…
- [2 Corinthians 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/6/7) — By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
- [2 Corinthians 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/7/14) — For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, i…
- [2 Corinthians 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/11/10) — As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
- [2 Corinthians 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/12/6) — 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 see…
- [2 Corinthians 13:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/13/8) — For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
- [Galatians 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/2/5) — To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
- [Galatians 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/2/14) — 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 m…
- [Galatians 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/3/1) — 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 y…
- [Galatians 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/5/7) — Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
- [Ephesians 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/1/13) — 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 hol…
- [Ephesians 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/4/21) — If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
- [Ephesians 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/4/24) — And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
- [Ephesians 4:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/4/25) — Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- [Ephesians 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/5/9) — (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- [Ephesians 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/6/14) — Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
- [Philippians 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/philippians/1/18) — What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
- [Colossians 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/colossians/1/5) — For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
- [Colossians 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/colossians/1/6) — 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…
- [2 Thessalonians 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-thessalonians/2/10) — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- [2 Thessalonians 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-thessalonians/2/12) — That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- [2 Thessalonians 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-thessalonians/2/13) — 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 sanctif…
- [1 Timothy 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/2/4) — Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
- [1 Timothy 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/2/7) — 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.
- [1 Timothy 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/3/15) — 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 groun…
- [1 Timothy 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/4/3) — 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.
- [1 Timothy 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/6/5) — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- [2 Timothy 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/2/15) — Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- [2 Timothy 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/2/18) — Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
- [2 Timothy 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/2/25) — In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
- [2 Timothy 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/3/7) — Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- [2 Timothy 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/3/8) — Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
- [2 Timothy 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/4/4) — And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
- [Titus 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/titus/1/1) — 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;
- [Titus 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/titus/1/14) — Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
- [Hebrews 10:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/10/26) — For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- [James 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/1/18) — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- [James 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/3/14) — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- [James 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/5/19) — Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
- [1 Peter 1:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-peter/1/22) — 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…
- [2 Peter 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-peter/1/12) — 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.
- [2 Peter 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-peter/2/2) — And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
- [1 John 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/1/6) — If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
- [1 John 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/1/8) — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- [1 John 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/2/4) — He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- [1 John 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/2/21) — 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.
- [1 John 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/3/18) — My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- [1 John 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/3/19) — And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
- [1 John 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/4/6) — 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.
- [1 John 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-john/5/6) — 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 S…
- [2 John 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-john/1/1) — 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;
- [2 John 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-john/1/2) — For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
- [2 John 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-john/1/3) — Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
- [2 John 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-john/1/4) — I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
- [3 John 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/3-john/1/1) — The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
- [3 John 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/3-john/1/3) — For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
- [3 John 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/3-john/1/4) — I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
- [3 John 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/3-john/1/8) — We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
- [3 John 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/3-john/1/12) — Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.