Alétheia (225 in Strong's Concordance) is a noun in Ancient Greek that means truth, it is the opposite of an illusion.
Related Terms
The following terms are often used in connection with alétheia:
Usage
Alétheia is used 109 times across 98 verses. Below is a list of all references in the New Testament:
And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.
Matthew 22:16 ESV
But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
Mark 5:33 ESV
And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?”
Mark 12:14 ESV
And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.
Mark 12:32 ESV
But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land
Luke 4:25 ESV
So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
Luke 20:21 ESV
And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.”
Luke 22:59 ESV
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 ESV
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:17 ESV
But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
John 3:21 ESV
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
John 4:23 ESV
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24 ESV
You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
John 5:33 ESV
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32 ESV
but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
John 8:40 ESV
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44 ESV
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
John 8:45 ESV
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 8:46 ESV
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6 ESV
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:17 ESV
But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 15:26 ESV
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:7 ESV
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 16:13 ESV
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
John 17:17 ESV
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
John 17:19 ESV
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John 18:37 ESV
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
John 18:38 ESV
for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel
Acts 4:27 ESV
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality
Acts 10:34 ESV
But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words.
Acts 26:25 ESV
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Romans 1:18 ESV
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Romans 1:25 ESV
We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
Romans 2:2 ESV
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Romans 2:8 ESV
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth
Romans 2:20 ESV
But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
Romans 3:7 ESV
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit
Romans 9:1 ESV
For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs
Romans 15:8 ESV
Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:8 ESV
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV
by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left
2 Corinthians 6:7 ESV
For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.
2 Corinthians 7:14 ESV
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:10 ESV
though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
2 Corinthians 12:6 ESV
For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:8 ESV
to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
Galatians 2:5 ESV
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Galatians 2:14 ESV
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Galatians 5:7 ESV
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit
Ephesians 1:13 ESV
assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus
Ephesians 4:21 ESV
and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:24 ESV
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:25 ESV
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true)
Ephesians 5:9 ESV
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness
Ephesians 6:14 ESV
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice
Philippians 1:18 ESV
because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel
Colossians 1:5 ESV
which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth
Colossians 1:6 ESV
and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 ESV
in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruitsto be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV
who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV
For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
1 Timothy 2:7 ESV
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
1 Timothy 3:15 ESV
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:3 ESV
and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
1 Timothy 6:5 ESV
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV
who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.
2 Timothy 2:18 ESV
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth
2 Timothy 2:25 ESV
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:7 ESV
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
2 Timothy 3:8 ESV
and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:4 ESV
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness
Titus 1:1 ESV
not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
Titus 1:14 ESV
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins
Hebrews 10:26 ESV
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:18 ESV
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
James 3:14 ESV
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back
James 5:19 ESV
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart
1 Peter 1:22 ESV
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
2 Peter 1:12 ESV
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
2 Peter 2:2 ESV
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
1 John 1:6 ESV
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8 ESV
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him
1 John 2:4 ESV
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
1 John 2:21 ESV
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 ESV
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
1 John 3:19 ESV
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:6 ESV
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
1 John 5:6 ESV
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth
2 John 1:1 ESV
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
2 John 1:2 ESV
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.
2 John 1:3 ESV
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
2 John 1:4 ESV
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
3 John 1:1 ESV
For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
3 John 1:3 ESV
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
3 John 1:4 ESV
Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
3 John 1:8 ESV
Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
3 John 1:12 ESV
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