2Sa 12:9, 24:10, 2Ki 22:19, 1Jo 3:20-21 | ESV | STEP | Why have you despised the word of the Lord , to do what is evil in his sight ? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites .

2 Samuel 12:9

9 ^aWhy have you despised the word of the Lord, ^bto do what is evil in his sight? ^cYou have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^dhave taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 24:10

The Lord’s Judgment of David’s Sin

10 But ^eDavid’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, ^f“I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done ^gvery foolishly.”

2 Kings 22:19

19 ^hbecause your heart was penitent, and you ⁱhumbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become ^ja desolation and ^ka curse, and you ^lhave torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

1 John 3:20-21

20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, ^mif our heart does not condemn us, ⁿwe have confidence before God;