1 John 3:20

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 Ye are of God, 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 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest 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 LORD, 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 which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every 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, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
  • Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall 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 that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
  • John 8:9 : 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
  • John 10:29-30 : 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, 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 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
  • Rom 2:14-15 : 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
  • Heb 6:13 : 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
  • Titus 3:11 : 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

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