Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Holman Bible
even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.
International Standard Version
If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.
A Conservative Version
Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
American Standard Version
because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Amplified
whenever our heart convicts us [in guilt]; for God is greater than our heart and He knows all things [nothing is hidden from Him because we are in His hands].
An Understandable Version
But, if our hearts condemn us [for not demonstrating God's love for others], surely God, who is greater than our hearts [will also condemn us], because He knows all things.
Anderson New Testament
for if our heart condemn us, we know that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Bible in Basic English
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
Common New Testament
whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for if our conscience condemn us, God knows us better than we do our selves, he knoweth all things.
Darby Translation
that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
But if our heart condemn us, certainly God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Godbey New Testament
because if our heart may condemn us, it is because God is greater than our heart, and he knows all things.
Goodspeed New Testament
if they condemn us for anything, for God is greater than our consciences, and he knows all.
John Wesley New Testament
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Julia Smith Translation
For if our heart condemn us, for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
King James 2000
For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all [things].
Modern King James verseion
that if our heart accuses us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things.
Moffatt New Testament
whenever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and he knows all.
Montgomery New Testament
and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
NET Bible
that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
Noyes New Testament
because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Sawyer New Testament
for if our minds condemn us, God is greater than our minds and knows all things.
The Emphasized Bible
Because, if our own heart condemn us, greater, is God, than our heart, and perceiveth all things.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For should our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Twentieth Century New Testament
that if our conscience condemns us, yet God is greater than our conscience and knows everything.
Webster
For if our heart condemneth us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Weymouth New Testament
in whatever matters our hearts condemn us--because God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.
Williams New Testament
because if our consciences do condemn us, God is greater than our consciences, and He knows everything.
World English Bible
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Worrell New Testament
because, if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Worsley New Testament
For, if our heart condemn us, God is still greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Youngs Literal Translation
because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.
Themes
Attributes of God » Power of God » Wisdom
Divine Knowledge » General reference to
God » Eternal the growth of » Knowledge possessed by
God » Mercy of » Omniscience of
Knowledge » Divine Knowledge » General reference to
Knowledge » God's » General reference to
Topics
Interlinear
hemon
ἡμῶν
hemon
Usage: 388
Kardia
καρδία
Kardia
Usage: 116
References
Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:20
Prayers for 1 John 3:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Courage Before God
19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth, and persuade our heart before him, 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 139:1-4
LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
Jeremiah 17:10
I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, 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.
Romans 2:14-15
(for when Gentiles who do not have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
Job 27:6
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
"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
Psalm 44:20-21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Psalm 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him?' says the LORD. 'Do I not fill heaven and earth?' says the LORD.
John 2:24-25
But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
John 8:9
They, when they heard it, 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
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
Acts 5:33
But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and wanted to kill them.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:24-25
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
Titus 3:11
knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.
Hebrews 4:13
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.
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,
1 John 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.
Revelation 2:23
I will kill her children with Death, and all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.