for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
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