1 John 3:20

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

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Psalms 139:1–4Rank 1 from verse 20
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¹O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
²Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
³Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
⁴For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Jeremiah 17:10Rank 2 from verse 20
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¹⁰I 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.
Hebrews 4:13Rank 3 from verse 20
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¹³Neither 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.
1 Corinthians 4:4Rank 4 from verse 20
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⁴For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1 John 4:4Rank 5 from verse 20
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⁴Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Jeremiah 23:24Rank 6 from verse 20
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²⁴Can 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.
John 10:29–30Rank 7 from verse 20
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²⁹My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
³⁰I and my Father are one.
Psalms 44:20–21Rank 8 from verse 20
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²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Job 33:12Rank 9 from verse 20
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¹²Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
Revelation 2:23Rank 10 from verse 20
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²³And 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.
Romans 2:14–15Rank 11 from verse 20
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¹⁴For 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:
¹⁵Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Titus 3:11Rank 12 from verse 20
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¹¹Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Job 27:6Rank 13 from verse 20
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⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
John 2:24–25Rank 14 from verse 20
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²⁴But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
²⁵And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
John 21:17Rank 15 from verse 20
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¹⁷He 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; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Psalms 90:8Rank 16 from verse 20
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⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
John 8:9Rank 17 from verse 20
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⁹And 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.
1 Corinthians 14:24–25Rank 18 from verse 20
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²⁴But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
²⁵And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Hebrews 6:13Rank 19 from verse 20
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¹³For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Acts 5:33Rank 20 from verse 20
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³³¶ When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

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