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telling the truth

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6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

15Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.

44You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.

31Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: “If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples. 32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

14And the Word became flesh, and he lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory like that of an only-begotten Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.