Truth is Required
We are in the end times when truth has been replaced by political (in)correctness. Beware those who practice deceit instead of truth for they are not of God. Only those who speak truth honor God.
1Sa 12:24 Only fear Jehovah, and serve Him in truth with all your heart. For consider what great things He has done for you.
Pro 12:17 He who breathes truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.
Isa 59:4 None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.
Jer 7:28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jer 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jer 9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
Jer 9:4 Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.
Jer 9:5 And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jer 9:6 Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.
Joh 4:24 God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
Joh 8:44 You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.
Joh 18:37 Pilate then said to Him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say it that I am a king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.
Jesus was the earthly witness of all that His Father wants and said to Him. Only those following Christ can understand and have faith for spiritual truths given by the Holy Spirit. Jesus represented god’s unblemished human lamb and was a shepherd to the lost. Just as sheep know their shepherd’s voice, those in Christ know his voice.
Truth originates only with God. Jesus only spoke truth. Truth is necessary to please God.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Rom 2:8 But to those who indeed disobeying the truth out of self-seeking, and obeying unrighteousness, will be anger and wrath,
Eph 4:25 Therefore putting away lying, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. (Speaking of those in Christ)
1Ti 6:3 If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness,
1Ti 6:4 he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,
1Ti 6:5 meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
A description of end times:
2Ti 3:1 Know this also, that in the last days grievous times will be at hand.
2Ti 3:2 For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,
2Ti 3:4 traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Ti 3:5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.
2Ti 3:6 For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts,
2Ti 3:7 ever learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 4:3 For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear.
2Ti 4:4 And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.
There is also a warning to believers:
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Thus, what is truth?
Truth is the complete real and reliable accurate relating of facts. Truth does not involve hearsay, imaginations or falsehoods.