1 John 3:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

For if our heart condemne vs, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all things.

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  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I the Lord search the heart, and try ye reines, euen to giue euery man according to his wayes, and according to the fruite of his workes.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature, which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and open vnto his eyes, with whome we haue to doe.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 Litle children, ye are of God, and haue ouercome them: for greater is he that is in you, then he that is in this world.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me. 2 Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off. 3 Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death: and all the Churches shall know that I am he which searche the reines and heartes: and I will giue vnto euery one of you according vnto your workes.
  • Job 27:6 : 6 I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.
  • Job 33:12 : 12 Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.
  • Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god, 21 Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.
  • Ps 90:8 : 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide him selfe in secrete places, that I shall not see him, sayth the Lorde? Do not I fill heauen and earth, saieth the Lord?
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Iesus did not commit him selfe vnto them, because he knewe them all, 25 And had no neede that any should testifie of man: for he knewe what was in man.
  • John 8:9 : 9 And when they heard it, being accused by their owne conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at ye eldest euen to the last: so Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the mids.
  • John 10:29-30 : 29 My Father which gaue them me, is greater then all, and none is able to take them out of my Fathers hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said vnto him the third time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? Peter was sorie because he said to him the third time, Louest thou me? and said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus saide vnto him, Feede my sheepe.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 Now when they heard it, they brast for anger, and consulted to slay them.
  • Rom 2:14-15 : 14 For when the Gentiles which haue not the Lawe, doe by nature, the things conteined in the Lawe, they hauing not the Lawe, are a Lawe vnto themselues, 15 Which shew the effect of the Lawe written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnes, and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing,)
  • Heb 6:13 : 13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophecie, and there come in one that beleeueth not, or one vnlearned, hee is rebuked of all men, and is iudged of all, 25 And so are the secrets of his heart made manifest, and so he will fall downe on his face and worship God, and say plainely that God is in you in deede.
  • Titus 3:11 : 11 Knowing that hee that is such, is peruerted, and sinneth, being damned of his owne selfe.

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