Truth has many meanings

In America, the emphasis is on facts or beliefs that are true and the Bible does speak this way as well. However, the emphasis in the Bible is on truth as a way of life that, of course, involves facts and correct beliefs, but is much more encompassing. “Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in truth and deed” (1 Jn 3:8). Sometimes our Western patterns of thinking affect how we translate truth in the Bible. For instance, Paul exhorts believers to “speak the truth in love” (Eph 4:15). The problem is that the word “speak” does not occur in the Greek here. In fact, “truth” here is not a noun but a verb—“to truth.” That is, Paul says “truthing in love” which does not make immediate sense to English speakers so we translate it in a way that makes sense to us—truth is an object that can be given to another person by speaking it. But that is not what Paul meant in this verse. He means a way of life. The emphasis on truth as a way of life is one that may be beneficial for Christians to employ instead of limiting the idea of truth to correct doctrines.