1 John 3:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

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  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges 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 open unto the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are from 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, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to 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 as long as I live.
  • Job 33:12 : 12 Behold, in this you are not just; I will answer you, 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 knows the secrets of the heart.
  • Ps 90:8 : 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all men, 25 And had no need that anyone should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.
  • John 8:9 : 9 And those who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.
  • John 10:29-30 : 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 When they heard that, they were furious and took counsel to kill them.
  • Rom 2:14-15 : 14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves: 15 Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else excusing each other;)
  • Heb 6:13 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all. 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.
  • Titus 3:11 : 11 Knowing that such a person is warped and sinful, being self-condemned.

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    21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we have confidence toward God.

    22 And whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

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    18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

    19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

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    3 And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

    5 But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

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    5 This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:

    7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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    16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

    17 In this love has been perfected among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.

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    3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

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    31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judges: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

    2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

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    14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

    15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

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    21 Shall not God search this out? for He knows the secrets of the heart.

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    18 He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

    19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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    6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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    11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13 By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

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    9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.

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    4 And such trust we have through Christ toward God:

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    8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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    24 And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

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    19 We love Him because He first loved us.

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    15 Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else excusing each other;)

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    4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

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    11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I hope are well known also in your consciences.

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    1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16 By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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    20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

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    6 Certainly not: for then how will God judge the world?

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    3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.

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    9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

  • Rom 3:9
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    9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

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    3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.

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    15 Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

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    14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

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    5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.

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    9 For if the ministry of condemnation is glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.