1 John 3:19
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
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Study Note
The conditional 'hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him' offers practical love as the ground of assurance against a troubled conscience. The context (3:17-18) specifies that 'this' — the means of knowing we are of the truth — is love expressed not in word or tongue but in deed and truth: helping a brother in material need. The 'assure our hearts before him' (peisomen ten kardian hemon) may mean 'set our hearts at rest' or 'convince our hearts' — either way it addresses the anxiety of the self-condemned heart (3:20) with the evidence of practical love. This pastoral epistemology — using observable love to quiet conscience — balances faith-alone assurance with the practical evidence of genuine regeneration.
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Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
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