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 have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;Mark 5:33 · ἀλήθειαν.¶and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth,Mark 12:14 · ἀληθείαςand they having come, say to him, ‘Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men, but in truth the way of God dost teach; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? may we give, or may we not give?’Mark 12:32 · ἀληθείαςAnd the scribe said to him, ‘Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He;Luke 4:25 · ἀληθείαςand of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,Luke 20:21 · ἀληθείαςand they questioned him, saying, ‘Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;Luke 22:59 · ἀληθείαςAnd one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, ‘Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;’John 1:14 · ἀληθείας.¶And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.John 1:17 · ἀλήθειαfor the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;John 3:21 · ἀλήθειανbut he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.’John 4:23 · ἀληθείᾳ·but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;John 4:24 · ἀληθείᾳGod is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.’John 5:33 · ἀληθείᾳ·ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.John 8:32 · ἀλήθειαν, · ἀλήθειαand the truth shall make you free.’John 8:40 · ἀλήθειανand now, ye seek to kill me—a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;John 8:44 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθεια‘Ye are of a father—the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar—also his father.John 8:45 · ἀλήθειαν‘And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.John 8:46 · ἀλήθειανWho of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?John 14:6 · ἀλήθειαJesus saith to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;John 14:17 · ἀληθείας,the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.John 15:26 · ἀληθείας‘And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;John 16:7 · ἀλήθειαν‘But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;John 16:13 · ἀληθείας, · ἀληθείᾳand when He may come—the Spirit of truth—He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;John 17:17 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειάsanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;John 17:19 · ἀληθείᾳ.and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.John 18:37 · ἀληθείᾳ. · ἀληθείαςPilate, therefore, said to him, ‘Art thou then a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.’John 18:38 · ἀλήθεια;Pilate saith to him, ‘What is truth?’ and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, ‘I do find no fault in him;Acts 4:27 · ἀληθείαςfor gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,Acts 10:34 · ἀληθείαςAnd Peter having opened his mouth, said, ‘Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,Acts 26:25 · ἀληθείαςand he saith, ‘I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;Romans 1:18 · ἀλήθειανfor revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.Romans 1:25 · ἀλήθειανwho did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.Romans 2:2 · ἀλήθειανand we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.Romans 2:8 · ἀληθείᾳ,and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,Romans 2:20 · ἀληθείαςan instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.Romans 3:7 · ἀλήθειαfor if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?Romans 9:1 · ἈλήθειανTruth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,Romans 15:8 · ἀληθείαςAnd I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,1 Corinthians 5:8 · ἀληθείας.¶so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.1 Corinthians 13:6 · ἀληθείᾳ,rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;2 Corinthians 4:2 · ἀληθείαςbut did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;2 Corinthians 6:7 · ἀληθείας,in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,2 Corinthians 7:14 · ἀληθείᾳ · ἀλήθειαbecause if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,2 Corinthians 11:10 · ἀλήθειαThe truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;2 Corinthians 12:6 · ἀλήθειανfor if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;2 Corinthians 13:8 · ἀληθείας · ἀληθείας.for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;Galatians 2:5 · ἀλήθειαto whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.Galatians 2:14 · ἀλήθειανBut when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, ‘If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?Galatians 5:7 · ἀληθείᾳYe were running well; who did hinder you—not to obey the truth?Ephesians 1:13 · ἀληθείας,in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,Ephesians 4:21 · ἀλήθειαif so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;Ephesians 4:24 · ἀληθείας.¶and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.Ephesians 4:25 · ἀλήθειανWherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of 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 your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,Philippians 1:18 · ἀληθείᾳwhat then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed—and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.Colossians 1:5 · ἀληθείαςbecause of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,Colossians 1:6 · ἀληθείᾳ,which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀληθείαςand in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,2 Thessalonians 2:12 · ἀληθείᾳthat they may be judged—all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.2 Thessalonians 2:13 · ἀληθείας,And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,1 Timothy 2:4 · ἀληθείαςwho doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;1 Timothy 2:7 · ἀλήθειαν · ἀληθείᾳ.¶in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle—truth I say in Christ, I do not lie—a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.1 Timothy 3:15 · ἀληθείας.¶and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God—a pillar and foundation of the truth,1 Timothy 4:3 · ἀλήθειαν.forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,1 Timothy 6:5 · ἀληθείας,wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;2 Timothy 2:15 · ἀληθείας.¶be diligent to present thyself approved to God—a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;2 Timothy 2:18 · ἀλήθειανwho concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;2 Timothy 2:25 · ἀληθείας,in meekness instructing those opposing—if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,2 Timothy 3:7 · ἀληθείαςalways learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,2 Timothy 3:8 · ἀληθείᾳ,and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;2 Timothy 4:4 · ἀληθείαςand indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.Titus 1:1 · ἀληθείαςPaul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,Titus 1:14 · ἀλήθειαν.¶not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;Hebrews 10:26 · ἀληθείαςFor we—wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth—no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,James 1:18 · ἀληθείας,having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.James 3:14 · ἀληθείας.and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;James 5:19 · ἀληθείαςBrethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,1 Peter 1:22 · ἀληθείαςYour souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,2 Peter 1:12 · ἀληθείᾳ.Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,2 Peter 2:2 · ἀληθείαςand many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,1 John 1:6 · ἀλήθειαν·if we may say—‘we have fellowship with Him,’ and in the darkness may walk—we lie, and do not the truth;1 John 1:8 · ἀλήθειαif we may say—‘we have not sin,’ ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;1 John 2:4 · ἀλήθειαhe who is saying, ‘I have known him,’ and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;1 John 2:21 · ἀλήθειαν · ἀληθείαςI did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.1 John 3:18 · ἀληθείᾳ.My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in work and in truth!1 John 3:19 · ἀληθείαςand in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,1 John 4:6 · ἀληθείαςwe—of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.1 John 5:6 · ἀλήθεια·This one is he who did come through water and blood—Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,2 John 1:1 · ἀληθείᾳ, · ἀλήθειαν,The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,2 John 1:2 · ἀλήθειανbecause of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,2 John 1:3 · ἀληθείᾳthere shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.2 John 1:4 · ἀληθείᾳI rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from 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 exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;3 John 1:4 · ἀληθείᾳgreater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.3 John 1:8 · ἀληθείᾳ.¶we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.3 John 1:12 · ἀληθείας·to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also—we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.