Quotes About Truth

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

“What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëAdminister true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ëYou shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.í When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.

And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.

But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ëMan shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.í”

to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:

and He began to teach them, saying:

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.