1 John 3:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

1 John 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For if our heart condemn us - We cannot hope for peace from any expectation that our own hearts will never accuse us, or that we ourselves can approve of all that we have done. The reference here...
1 John 3:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (4) if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. (r) If an evil conscience convicts us, much more ought the judgment of God condemn us, who knows our hearts be...
1 John 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The hatred of the world is to be expected, but within the Christian brotherhood there must be love, manifesting itself in deeds of self-sacrifice in imitation of Christ's love. If we possess this spi...
1 John 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

if . App-118. condemn . Greek. kataginosko. See Galatians 2:11 (blamed). all things . Compare Peter's answer, John 21:17 .
1 John 3:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. For if our heart condemn us He proves, on the other hand, that they in vain possess the name and appearance of Christians, who have not the testimony of a good conscience. For if any one...
1 John 3:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2450 A GOOD AND EVIL CONSCIENCE 1 John 3:20-21 . If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we con...
1 John 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. If our heart condemn us - If we be conscious that our love is feigned, we shall feel inwardly condemned in professi...
1 John 3:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

God is greater than our heart,— That is, more powerful, say some, and consequently more able to condemn and punish: but greater in knowledge, say others; and the following words evidently favou...
1 John 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Bengel takes this as consoling the believer whom his heart condemns; who therefore, like Peter, appeals from...
1 John 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Righteousness of God and the Duties and Privileges of Sonship 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and such we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteri...
1 John 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Loving in Deed and in Truth 1 John 3:13-24 Love to the brethren is a sign that we have been born into the family. We may not like them all, yet we can love them. If we love, we live; and if...
1 John 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle s...
1 John 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (15) Whosoever ha...
1 John 3:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE ‘And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Be...
1 John 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For if our heart condemn us ,.... Of want of love to the brethren, and of hypocrisy in it, as well as of any other sin; for the conscience, which is meant by the heart here, is accuser, witness and...
1 John 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Ver. 20. If our keart condemn us ] Conscience is God's spy and man's overseer, Domesticus index, iudex, carnif...
1 John 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My beloved children, let us not love merely in word or in tongue Contenting ourselves with complimental expressions of regard, or with giving our Christian brethren nothing but fair speeches; bu...
1 John 3:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of...
1 John 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Testimony of Conscience. A. D. 80. 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than o...
1 John 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

If our heart, or our conscience, condemn us, viz. in plain things, (as this of loving our brother is), and wherein the mind of God is evidently the same with our own conscience; his superiority,...
1 John 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Centrality of Christian Love ( 1 John 3:11 to 1 John 4:21 ). The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next...
1 John 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 3:18 . In word .—Profession, mere boasting. True love finds expression in service. “St. John hints that there is some danger of this conventionality amongst...
1 John 3:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 3:19-22 God Greater than Our Heart. I. The subject with which these verses deal is an accusing conscience and its antidote. St. John does not say that the heart may not accuse justly. He d...
1 John 3:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upo...
1 John 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 3:1 . That we should be called the sons of God! The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3 . They abide in Christ...
1 John 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Righteousness essential to the answer of...
1 John 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 John 3:1 to 1 John 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION . God is Love. 1 John 3:1-62 (1) The evidence of sonship. Righteousness. 1 John 3:1-62 The Divine bi...
1 John 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The reassurance of the Spirit:
1 John 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 14:24 ; 1 Corinthians 14:25 ; 1 Corinthians 4:4 ; 1 John 4:4 ; Acts 5:33 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Hebrews 6:13 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; Job 27:6 ; Job 33:12 ; John 10:29...
1 John 3:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Children of God 1 John 3:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we wh...
1 John 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For if we have not this testimony, if in anything our heart, our own conscience, condemn us, much more does God, who is greater than our heart — An infinitely holier and a more impartial Judge. And...

1 John 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 3:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 3:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 John 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 3:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 3:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 3:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 John 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 John 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes