1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
World English Bible
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 persuade our hearts before him,
21Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
Cross References
Job 27:6I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
Psalms 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 139:1LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
Jeremiah 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
John 8:9They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
John 21:17He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” 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 →