1 John 3:20

Even when our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows everything. God's gracious knowledge can outweigh our self-accusation.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 139:1–4O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
• Jer 17:10I 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.
• Heb 4:13Neither 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 Cor 4:4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
• 1 Jn 4:4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
• Jer 23:24Can 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 10:29–30My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
• Ps 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
• Rom 2:14–15For 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:
• Rev 2:23And 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.
• Titus 3:11Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
• Job 33:12Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
• Job 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
• John 2:24–25But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
• John 21:17He 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.
• Ps 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
• John 8:9And 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.
• Heb 6:13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
• 1 Cor 14:24–25But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
• Acts 5:33When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

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