1 John 3:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God's hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows all things.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For even if our heart reproaches us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows all things.

1 John 3:20 Cross References

Job 27:6

1 I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

Job 33:12

8 Rescuing his soul from corruption : and his life from passing to the sword.

Psalm 90:8

5 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Jeremiah 17:10

8 Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.

Jeremiah 23:24

2 Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

John 21:17

5 But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.

John 8:9

7 And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two men is true.

Acts 5:33

1 And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

Romans 8:34

For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

1 Corinthians 4:4

3 We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.

Titus 3:11

Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints:

Hebrews 4:13

As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

Hebrews 6:13

To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation, is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace:

1 John 3:19

You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1 John 3:21

We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:4

3 In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.

Revelation 2:23

Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe, and do penance. If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.