What is truth?  

Today “truth” has come to mean “something honest or factual,” but here it is used in the deeper sense of “a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality.”  

We should seek truth.

Psalm 25:5

Proverbs 23:23

1 Timothy 2:4

God has promised to reveal His truth to us.

Jeremiah 33:6

John 15:26 John 8:31–32  

God’s Word is truth.

Psalm 119:142

Psalm 119:151

John 17:17

 
Jesus is the Word made flesh; He is the truth.

John 1:14

John 1:17

John 14:6

Ephesians 4:21  

Don’t be led away from the truth.

Colossians 2:8

2 Timothy 4:4

1 John 4:6

Truth is pervasive and timeless.

Psalm 85:10–11

Psalm 100:5

Psalm 108:4  

Smile, though your heart is aching,

Smile, even though it’s breaking,

When there are clouds in the sky you’ll get by if you

Smile through your pain and sorrow,

Smile, and maybe tomorrow

You’ll see the sun come shining through for you,
if you just smile.

—Lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons (1954), set to music composed by Charlie Chaplin for his 1936 silent film classic Modern Times.