1 John 3:20

American Standard Version (1901)

because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me] . 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.
  • Job 27:6 : 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
  • Job 33:12 : 12 Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man.
  • Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
  • Ps 90:8 : 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, 25 and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
  • John 8:9 : 9 And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst.
  • John 10:29-30 : 29 My Father, who hath given [them] unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and minded to slay them.
  • Rom 2:14-15 : 14 (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves; 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing [them] );
  • Heb 6:13 : 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all; 25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
  • Titus 3:11 : 11 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned.

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