11 Truth Commands to Follow

by Dr. Dave

11 Truth Commands we would do well to follow—along with 11 clarifying synonyms and 11 defining adjectives.  Are you a person of Truth?   Follow the God of truth.  Read the word of truth.  Journey with people who value the truth.  Be a lover of the truth–desire it, welcome it, and honor it.  Commit to living a life of truth.
What is Truth? 

• Truth is reality and actuality .
• Truth is what is real, actual, and true.
• Truth is how things really are.
• Truth is what is accurate.
• Truth distinguishes right from wrong.
• Truth is encapsulated in God’s word.

11 Synonyms for Truth

Call I the bona fide truth, the naked truth, or the gospel truth, truth always involves: factuality, certainty, infallibility, integrity, verity, veracity, genuineness, rightness, correctness, exactness, and trueness

11 Adjectives Describing Truth

Truth is not invention, misrepresentation, dishonesty, falsehood, or lie.  Truth is unadulterated, unaffected, uncolored, unconfuted, undistorted, unerring, unexaggerated, unfeigned, unperjured, unsoiled, andunvarnished reality.

11 Truth Commands to Follow

• Come to the Truth: “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a  knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3,4).

• Love the Truth: “People… perish because they refuse to love the truth and so be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:10).

• Believe in the Truth: “… all will be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have delighted in wickedness” (2 Thessalonians 2:12).

• Established in the Truth: “you … are firmly established in the truth” (2 Peter 1:12).

• Obey the Truth: “obeying the truth” (1 Peter 1:22)

• Speak the Truth: “…each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor”(Ephesians 4:25).

• Declare the Truth: “But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind (insane), most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth” (Acts 26:25).

• Handle Accurately the Truth: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15)

• Walk in the Truth: “You continue to walk in the truth.  It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth.  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 3-4).

• Love Others in the Truth: “I love in the truth” (3 John 1).

• Worship in Truth: “…true worshipers…worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).

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