And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.
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.
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.
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
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.
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.
would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
“The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
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