1 John 3:20
Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
In Context
19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him.
21Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,
Cross References
Job 27:6I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
Psalms 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 139:1O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.
Jeremiah 23:24Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD.
John 8:9And they, having heard and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, having begun from the elder until the last. And Jesus was left behind alone, and the woman being in the midst.
John 21:17He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says t
Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:15-20
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from… Read the whole commentary →