1 John 3:21
Good News Translation
And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.

New Revised Standard Version
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God;

Contemporary English Version
Dear friends, if we feel at ease in the presence of God, we will have the courage to come near him.

New American Bible
Beloved, if [our] hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God.

1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.

1 John 4:17 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

Job 22:26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

Job 27:6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Psalm 7:3-5 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands: . . .

Psalm 101:2 And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

Context
Love One Another
20For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things. 21Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God. 22And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.…
Cross References
Romans 14:22
Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

Ephesians 3:12
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

1 John 2:7
Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.

1 John 3:2
Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:20
For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.

1 John 3:20
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