Truth
(..Matt B...
A psalm of David.
1 LORD , who may dwell in your sanctuary?
Who may live on your holy hill?
2 He whose walk is blameless
and who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from his heart
3 and has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbor no wrong
and casts no slur on his fellowman,
Psalm 40
9 I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly;
I do not seal my lips,
as you know, O LORD .
10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
I speak of your faithfulness and salvation.
I do not conceal your love and your truth
from the great assembly.
11 Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD ;
may your love and your truth always protect me.
Psalm 96
12 let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
13 they will sing before the LORD , for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his truth.
Proverbs 12
18 Reckless words pierce like a sword,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
19 Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
20 There is deceit in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but joy for those who promote peace.
John 1
16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing
after another. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but God the
One and Only,[1] ,[2] who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
Footnotes
1. 1:18 Or the Only Begotten
2. 1:18 Some manuscripts but the only (or only begotten) Son
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom
of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth
to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be
surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows
wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it
comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the
Spirit."
9 "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.
10 "You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand
these things? 11 I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and
we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept
our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do
not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from
heaven--the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the
desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life.
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For
God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to
save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already
because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved
darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone
who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for
fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has
done has been done through God."
God Bless
Matt