20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. …
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.
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.
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-22)The apostle, having intimated that there may be, even among us, such a privilege as an assurance or sound persuasion of heart towards God, proceeds here, I. To establish the court of conscience, and to assert the authority of it: For, if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things , 1 John 3:20. Our heart here is our self-reflecting judicial power, that noble excell…
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