1 John 3:20

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,