1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
In Context
20that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
Cross References
Job 22:26Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God:
Psalms 7:3Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;
1 Corinthians 4:4For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:8I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.
Hebrews 10:22let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.
1 John 4:17Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:21-23
The Testimony of Conscience. ( a. d. 80.) 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. The apostle, having intimated that there may be, even among us, such a privilege as an assurance or sound persuasion of heart towards God, proceeds here, I. To establish the court of… Read the whole commentary →