1 John 3:21
My beloved, if our heart condemneth us not, we have open countenances before God.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
In Context
20But if our heart condemneth us, how much greater is God than our heart, and knowing all things?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:4-(For I am not conscious in myself of any thing flagrant; yet I am not by this justified; for the Lord is my judge.)
1 Timothy 2:8I desire therefore, that men may pray in every place, while they lift up their hands with purity, without wrath, and without disputations.
Hebrews 10:22Let us, therefore draw near, with a true heart, and with the confidence of faith, being sprinkled as to our hearts, and pure from an evil conscience, and our body being washed with pure water.
1 John 4:17And hereby is his love perfected with us; that we may have open countenances in the day of judgment; because as he was, so also are we 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 →