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 · ἀληθείᾳThey sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.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 · ἀληθείαςWhen they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?Mark 12:32 · ἀληθείαςThe scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,Luke 4:25 · ἀληθείαςBut truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.Luke 20:21 · ἀληθείαςThey asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.Luke 22:59 · ἀληθείαςAfter about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”John 1:14 · ἀληθείας.¶The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.John 1:17 · ἀλήθειαFor the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.John 3:21 · ἀλήθειανBut he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”John 4:23 · ἀληθείᾳ·But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.John 4:24 · ἀληθείᾳGod is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”John 5:33 · ἀληθείᾳ·You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.John 8:32 · ἀλήθειαν, · ἀλήθειαYou will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”John 8:40 · ἀλήθειανBut now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.John 8:44 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειαYou are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.John 8:45 · ἀλήθειανBut because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.John 8:46 · ἀλήθειανWhich of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?John 14:6 · ἀλήθειαJesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.John 14:17 · ἀληθείας,the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.John 15:26 · ἀληθείας“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.John 16:7 · ἀλήθειανNevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.John 16:13 · ἀληθείας, · ἀληθείᾳHowever when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.John 17:17 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειάSanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.John 17:19 · ἀληθείᾳ.For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.John 18:37 · ἀληθείᾳ. · ἀληθείαςPilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”John 18:38 · ἀλήθεια;Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.Acts 4:27 · ἀληθείας“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered togetherActs 10:34 · ἀληθείαςPeter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;Acts 26:25 · ἀληθείαςBut he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.Romans 1:18 · ἀλήθειανFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,Romans 1:25 · ἀλήθειανwho exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.Romans 2:2 · ἀλήθειανWe know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.Romans 2:8 · ἀληθείᾳ,but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,Romans 2:20 · ἀληθείαςa corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.Romans 3:7 · ἀλήθειαFor if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?Romans 9:1 · ἈλήθειανI tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,Romans 15:8 · ἀληθείαςNow I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,1 Corinthians 5:8 · ἀληθείας.¶Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.1 Corinthians 13:6 · ἀληθείᾳ,doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices 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 boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke 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 one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.2 Corinthians 12:6 · ἀλήθειανFor if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears 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 no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.Galatians 2:14 · ἀλήθειανBut when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?Galatians 5:7 · ἀληθείᾳYou were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?Ephesians 1:13 · ἀληθείας,in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,Ephesians 4:21 · ἀλήθειαif indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:Ephesians 4:24 · ἀληθείας.¶and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.Ephesians 4:25 · ἀλήθειανTherefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.Ephesians 5:9 · ἀληθείᾳ,for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,Ephesians 6:14 · ἀληθείᾳStand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,Philippians 1:18 · ἀληθείᾳWhat does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.Colossians 1:5 · ἀληθείαςbecause of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,Colossians 1:6 · ἀληθείᾳ,which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀληθείαςand with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.2 Thessalonians 2:12 · ἀληθείᾳthat they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.2 Thessalonians 2:13 · ἀληθείας,But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;1 Timothy 2:4 · ἀληθείαςwho desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.1 Timothy 2:7 · ἀλήθειαν · ἀληθείᾳ.¶to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.1 Timothy 3:15 · ἀληθείας.¶but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.1 Timothy 4:3 · ἀλήθειαν.forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 6:5 · ἀληθείας,constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.2 Timothy 2:15 · ἀληθείας.¶Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.2 Timothy 2:18 · ἀλήθειανmen who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.2 Timothy 2:25 · ἀληθείας,in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,2 Timothy 3:7 · ἀληθείαςalways learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.2 Timothy 3:8 · ἀληθείᾳ,Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.2 Timothy 4:4 · ἀληθείαςand will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.Titus 1:1 · ἀληθείαςPaul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,Titus 1:14 · ἀλήθειαν.¶not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.Hebrews 10:26 · ἀληθείαςFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains 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 first fruits of his creatures.James 3:14 · ἀληθείας.But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.James 5:19 · ἀληθείαςBrothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,1 Peter 1:22 · ἀληθείαςSeeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:2 Peter 1:12 · ἀληθείᾳ.Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.2 Peter 2:2 · ἀληθείαςMany will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.1 John 1:6 · ἀλήθειαν·If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell 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 · ἀλήθειαOne who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.1 John 2:21 · ἀλήθειαν · ἀληθείαςI have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.1 John 3:18 · ἀληθείᾳ.My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.1 John 3:19 · ἀληθείαςAnd by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,1 John 4:6 · ἀληθείαςWe are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.1 John 5:6 · ἀλήθεια·This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.2 John 1:1 · ἀληθείᾳ, · ἀλήθειαν,The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;2 John 1:2 · ἀλήθειανfor the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:2 John 1:3 · ἀληθείᾳGrace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.2 John 1:4 · ἀληθείᾳI rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.3 John 1:1 · ἀληθείᾳ.The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.3 John 1:3 · ἀληθείᾳ, · ἀληθείᾳFor I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.3 John 1:4 · ἀληθείᾳI have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.3 John 1:8 · ἀληθείᾳ.¶We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.3 John 1:12 · ἀληθείας·Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.