1 John 3:20
because if our heart may condemn — because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
In Context
19and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
21Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,
Cross References
Job 27:6On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
Psalms 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
Psalms 139:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
Jeremiah 23:24Is any one hidden in secret places, And I see him not? an affirmation of Jehovah, Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? An affirmation of Jehovah.
John 8:9and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders — unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 21:17He saith to him the third time, 'Simon, [son] of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, 'Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, 'Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith 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 →