Verse 20

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

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  For hvis vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte, og kjenner alle ting.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  For hvis vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte, og han kjenner alt.

• Norsk King James

  For hvis vårt hjerte dømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte, og kjenner alle ting.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For selv om vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og kjenner alt.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  For dersom vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  For dersom vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, så er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For dersom vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte, og han vet alt.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For hvis hjertet vårt dømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og kjenner alt.

• gpt4.5-preview

  For om vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og kjenner alle ting.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For om vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og kjenner alle ting.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For om vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  For om vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  thi om end Hjertet fordømmer os, da er Gud større end vort Hjerte og kjender alle Ting.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For hvis vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og kjenner alt.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  for hvis vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  for hvis vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  for hvis vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For når vårt hjerte fordømmer oss, er Gud større enn vårt hjerte og vet alt.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But yf oure hertes condempne vs God is gretter then oure hertes and knoweth all thinges.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But yf oure hert condemne vs, God is greater the oure hert, and knoweth all thinges.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For yf our heart condempne vs, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all thynges.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

Referenced Verses

• 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.