ἀλήθεια, -ας, ἡ (ἀληθής), [in LXX chiefly for אֱמֶת (on which, see Cremer, 627f.), אֱמוּנָה ;] truth (see DB, iv, 818f.). 1. Objectively, "the reality lying at the basis of an appearance; the manifested, veritable essence of a matter" (Cremer, 86): Rom.9:1, al.; of religious truth, Rom.1:25, al.; esp. of Christian doctrine, Gal.2:5, al.; ἀ. θεοῦ, Rom.15:8. 2. Subjectively, truthfulness, truth, not merely verbal (cl.), but sincerity and integrity of character: Jhn.8:44, 3Jo.3. 3. In phrases (MM, VGT, see word): ἐπ᾽ ἀληθείας, Mrk.12:14, al.; ἀ. λέγειν (εἰπεῖν, λαλεῖν), Rom.9:1, 2Co.12:6, Eph.4:25, al.; ἀ. ποιεῖν, Jhn.3:21, 1Jn.1:6 (cf. DB, iv, 818b, ff.). (AS)
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G225 — ἀλήθεια
alētheia · truth · Greek
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Matthew 22:16 · ἀληθείᾳAnd they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men.Mark 5:33 · ἀλήθειαν.¶But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.Mark 12:14 · ἀληθείαςAnd when they were come, they say unto him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not the person of men, but of a truth teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?Mark 12:32 · ἀληθείαςAnd the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said that he is one; and there is none other but he:Luke 4:25 · ἀληθείαςBut of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;Luke 20:21 · ἀληθείαςAnd they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest not the person of any, but of a truth teachest the way of God:Luke 22:59 · ἀληθείαςAnd after the space of about one hour another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this man also was with him; for he is a Galilæan.John 1:14 · ἀληθείας.¶And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.John 1:17 · ἀλήθειαFor the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.John 3:21 · ἀλήθειανBut he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.John 4:23 · ἀληθείᾳ·But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.John 4:24 · ἀληθείᾳGod is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.John 5:33 · ἀληθείᾳ·Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth.John 8:32 · ἀλήθειαν, · ἀλήθειαand ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.John 8:40 · ἀλήθειανBut now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.John 8:44 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειαYe are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.John 8:45 · ἀλήθειανBut because I say the truth, ye believe me not.John 8:46 · ἀλήθειανWhich of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do ye not believe me?John 14:6 · ἀλήθειαJesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.John 14:17 · ἀληθείας,even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.John 15:26 · ἀληθείαςBut 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 bear witness of me:John 16:7 · ἀλήθειανNevertheless 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 go, I will send him unto you.John 16:13 · ἀληθείας, · ἀληθείᾳHowbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.John 17:17 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειάSanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.John 17:19 · ἀληθείᾳ.And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.John 18:37 · ἀληθείᾳ. · ἀληθείαςPilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.John 18:38 · ἀλήθεια;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 no crime in him.Acts 4:27 · ἀληθείαςfor of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,Acts 10:34 · ἀληθείαςAnd Peter opened his mouth and said,Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:Acts 26:25 · ἀληθείαςBut Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but speak forth words of truth and soberness.Romans 1:18 · ἀλήθειανFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;Romans 1:25 · ἀλήθειανfor that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.Romans 2:2 · ἀλήθειανAnd we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.Romans 2:8 · ἀληθείᾳ,but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,Romans 2:20 · ἀληθείαςa corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;Romans 3:7 · ἀλήθειαBut if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?Romans 9:1 · ἈλήθειανI say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,Romans 15:8 · ἀληθείαςFor I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,1 Corinthians 5:8 · ἀληθείας.¶wherefore 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 · ἀληθείᾳ,rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;2 Corinthians 4:2 · ἀληθείαςbut we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.2 Corinthians 6:7 · ἀληθείας,in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,2 Corinthians 7:14 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειαFor if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.2 Corinthians 11:10 · ἀλήθειαAs the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.2 Corinthians 12:6 · ἀλήθειανFor if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.2 Corinthians 13:8 · ἀληθείας · ἀληθείας.For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.Galatians 2:5 · ἀλήθειαto whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.Galatians 2:14 · ἀλήθειανBut when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?Galatians 5:7 · ἀληθείᾳYe were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?Ephesians 1:13 · ἀληθείας,in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,Ephesians 4:21 · ἀλήθειαif so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:Ephesians 4:24 · ἀληθείας.¶and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.Ephesians 4:25 · ἀλήθειανWherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.Ephesians 5:9 · ἀληθείᾳ,(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),Ephesians 6:14 · ἀληθείᾳStand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,Philippians 1:18 · ἀληθείᾳWhat then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.Colossians 1:5 · ἀληθείαςbecause of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,Colossians 1:6 · ἀληθείᾳ,which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀληθείαςand with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.2 Thessalonians 2:12 · ἀληθείᾳthat they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.2 Thessalonians 2:13 · ἀληθείας,But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:1 Timothy 2:4 · ἀληθείαςwho would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.1 Timothy 2:7 · ἀλήθειαν · ἀληθείᾳ.¶whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.1 Timothy 3:15 · ἀληθείας.¶but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.1 Timothy 4:3 · ἀλήθειαν.forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 6:5 · ἀληθείας,wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.2 Timothy 2:15 · ἀληθείας.¶Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.2 Timothy 2:18 · ἀλήθειανmen who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.2 Timothy 2:25 · ἀληθείας,in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,2 Timothy 3:7 · ἀληθείαςever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.2 Timothy 3:8 · ἀληθείᾳ,And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.2 Timothy 4:4 · ἀληθείαςand will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.Titus 1:1 · ἀληθείαςPaul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,Titus 1:14 · ἀλήθειαν.¶not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.Hebrews 10:26 · ἀληθείαςFor if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,James 1:18 · ἀληθείας,Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.James 3:14 · ἀληθείας.But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.James 5:19 · ἀληθείαςMy brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;1 Peter 1:22 · ἀληθείαςSeeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:2 Peter 1:12 · ἀληθείᾳ.Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you.2 Peter 2:2 · ἀληθείαςAnd many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.1 John 1:6 · ἀλήθειαν·If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:1 John 1:8 · ἀλήθειαIf we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1 John 2:4 · ἀλήθειαHe that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;1 John 2:21 · ἀλήθειαν · ἀληθείαςI have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.1 John 3:18 · ἀληθείᾳ.My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.1 John 3:19 · ἀληθείαςHereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:1 John 4:6 · ἀληθείαςWe are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.1 John 5:6 · ἀλήθεια·This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.2 John 1:1 · ἀληθείᾳ, · ἀλήθειαν,The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;2 John 1:2 · ἀλήθειανfor the truth’s sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:2 John 1:3 · ἀληθείᾳGrace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.2 John 1:4 · ἀληθείᾳI rejoice greatly that I have found certain of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.3 John 1:1 · ἀληθείᾳ.The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.3 John 1:3 · ἀληθείᾳ, · ἀληθείᾳFor I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.3 John 1:4 · ἀληθείᾳGreater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.3 John 1:8 · ἀληθείᾳ.¶We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.3 John 1:12 · ἀληθείας·Demetrius hath the witness of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness; and thou knowest that our witness is true.