1 John 3:19

Good News Translation

This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence.

Cross References

Psalm 119:56

I find my happiness in obeying your commands.

Isaiah 32:17

Because everyone will do what is right, there will be peace and security forever.

John 13:35

If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”

John 18:37

So Pilate asked him, “Are you a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this one purpose, to speak about the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth listens to me.”

Romans 4:21

He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised.

Romans 8:38

For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future,

2 Timothy 1:12

and it is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have trusted, and I am sure that he is able to keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me.

Hebrews 10:22

So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.

Hebrews 11:13

It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

1 John 2:21

I write you, then, not because you do not know the truth; instead, it is because you do know it, and you also know that no lie ever comes from the truth.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death.

1 John 3:20

If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything.

1 John 3:21

And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.