1 John 3:20
for if our heart condemn us, we know that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 we shall have our hearts at rest before him:
21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God,
Cross References
John 8:9But having heard him, and being convicted by their conscience, they went out, one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 21:17He said to him a third time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.
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 →