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Why Is It Good to Seek Both Spiritual and Secular Learning?
"I, Nephi … was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; … yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days."1...
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Why Did Lehi Quote from a Psalm of Repentance In His Dream?
"And after I had traveled for the space of many hours in darkness, I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies."1 Nephi 8:8The KnowIn...
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What Does Alma Say about Avoiding Sexual Sin?
“Now my son, I would that ye should repent and forsake your sins, and go no more after the lusts of your eyes, but cross yourself in all these things; for except ye do this ye can in nowise inherit the...
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How Can People Today Avoid Being Destroyed Like the Nephites Were?
Four hundred years pass not away save ... heavy destruction ... cometh unto this people, and nothing can save this people save it be repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ”Helaman 13:5–6The...
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What Does Archaeology Reveal about Warfare During Early Nephite Times?
“Wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance. And we [made] … weapons of war—yea, the sharp...
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Why Can Wickedness Never Bring Happiness?
“Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness. Behold, I say unto you, wickedness never was happiness.”Alma 41:10Context and...
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What Did the Book of Mormon Teach Early Church Leaders about the Order and...
“Now they were ordained after this manner—being called with a holy calling, and ordained with a holy ordinance, and taking upon them the high priesthood of the holy order, which calling, and ordinance,...
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What if Martin Harris Didn’t Lose all of the 116 Pages?
"Wherefore, with the help of these, king Benjamin, by laboring with all the might of his body and the faculty of his whole soul, and also the prophets, did once more establish peace in the land. And...
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Why Did Helaman Want His Sons to Remember to Build upon the Rock?
“And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds,...
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How Does the Book of Mormon Prepare Missionaries to Sacrifice, Serve, and...
"Alma delivered up the judgment-seat to Nephihah, and confined himself wholly to the high priesthood of the holy order of God, to the testimony of the word, according to the spirit of revelation and...
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How Much Could Joseph Smith Have Known about Chiasmus in 1829?
“And behold, it is wisdom in God that we should obtain these records, that we may preserve unto our children the language of our fathers.”1 Nephi 3:19Editor’s Note: This year marks 50 years since the...
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What Does It Mean to Be Perfect?
“Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.”3 Nephi 12:48Context and ContentWhen Jesus appeared to the people at Bountiful, he taught them things...
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Who Was Zelph?
“And it came to pass that many of the Lamanites did go into the land northward”Helaman 6:6The KnowWhile marching with Zion’s Camp in June 1834, Joseph Smith and the brethren “visited many of the...
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What Counts as Chiasmus?
“For the things which some men esteem to be of great worth ... others set at naught.”1 Nephi 19:7Editor’s Note: This year marks 50 years since the discovery of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon on August...
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How Does the Gospel Bring Us unto Christ?
"Now this is the commandment: Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless...
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What Did the Book of Mormon Teach the Early Saints about Enduring Persecution?
“But behold, the righteous that hearken unto the words of the prophets, and destroy them not, but look forward unto Christ with steadfastness for the signs which are given, notwithstanding all...
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How Did Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Authors Use Chiasmus?
“ For it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the great plan of the Eternal God there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish; yea, all are...
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What Can We Learn from the Savior’s First Words at Bountiful?
“Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world. And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath...
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Where Does the Name Nauvoo Come From?
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings unto them, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith...
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Can Chiasmus Survive Translation?
"This is the name that I said I should give unto you that never should be blotted out, except it be through transgression; therefore, take heed that ye do not transgress, that the name be not blotted...
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