Verse 20

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

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, 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 I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 There is no creature that is hidden from 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 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out 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, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Job 27:6 : 6 I hold fast to my righteousness, 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 you. In this you are 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 won't 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 presence.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, 25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
  • John 8:9 : 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
  • John 10:29-30 : 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one."
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.
  • Rom 2:14-15 : 14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
  • Heb 6:13 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. 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 sins, being self-condemned.