Quotes About Truth

Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.

See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said

that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,

Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,

On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.

according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”