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 139:1–4For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
• Jer 17:10“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.”
• Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
• 1 Cor 4:4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
• 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Jer 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
• John 10:29–30My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
• Ps 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
• Rom 2:14–15(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,
• Rev 2:23I 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.
• Titus 3:11knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.
• Job 33:12“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
• Job 27:6I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
• John 2:24–25But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
• John 21:17He 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.
• Ps 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
• John 8:9They, 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.
• Heb 6:13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
• 1 Cor 14:24–25But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
• Acts 5:33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

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