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1 John 3:20

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

KJV

ὅτι ἐὰν καταγινώσκῃ ἡμῶν ἡ καρδία, ὅτι μείζων ἐστὶν ὁ θεὸς τῆς καρδίας ἡμῶν καὶ γινώσκει πάντα.

Greek NT

Quoniam si reprehenderit nos cor nostrum : major est Deus corde nostro, et novit omnia.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
καταγινώσκω
kataginosko
verb · 3×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1781Conscience enables one to assume responsibility for the acts performed. If man commits evil, the just judgment of conscience can remain within him as the witness to the universal truth of the good, at the same time as the evil of his particular choice. the verdict of the judgment of conscience remains a pledge of hope and mercy. In attesting to the fault committed, it calls to …
§2845There is no limit or measure to this essentially divine forgiveness,146 whether one speaks of "sins" as in Luke (⇒ 11:4), "debts" as in Matthew (⇒ 6:12). We are always debtors: "Owe no one anything, except to love one another."147 The communion of the Holy Trinity is the source and criterion of truth in every relation ship. It is lived out in prayer, above all in th…
1. On the day after tomorrow, Friday next, the liturgy of the Church is concentrated with particular adoration and love around the mystery of the Heart of Christ. Today, therefore, anticipating this day and this feast, already, together with you, I wish to turn the eyes of our hearts to the Mystery of that Heart. It has spoken to me ever since my youth. Every year I return to t…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1Cor 11:28 — But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
  • 1John 4:4 — Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
  • 1Kgs 2:44 — The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
  • 1Sam 24:5 — And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
  • 1Thess 3:13 — To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
  • 2Cor 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • Gen 3:10 — And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
  • Heb 4:13 — Neither 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.
  • Jer 17:10 — I 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.
  • Jer 23:24 — Can 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.
  • Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
  • Job 22:26 — For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
  • Job 27:6 — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
  • Job 27:6 — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
  • Job 33:12 — Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
  • John 2:24 — But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
  • John 8:9 — And 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.
  • John 10:29 — My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
  • John 21:17 — He 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; t
  • Matt 21:25 — The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
  • Ps 44:20 — If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
  • Ps 66:19 — But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • Ps 90:8 — Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
  • Ps 90:8 — Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
  • Ps 119:2 — Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
  • Ps 119:6 — Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
  • Ps 139:1 — O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
  • Ps 145:18 — The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
  • Rev 2:23 — And 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.
  • Rom 2:14 — For 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:
  • Titus 3:11 — Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.