Unit 1
should
29 occurrences in 24 verses
1 Nephi 1:11, 13, 18,
1 Nephi 2:2,
1 Nephi 3:4, 11, 13, 18, 19,
1 Nephi 4:5, 6, 10, 13, 15, 20, 24, 25, 31, 33, 36,
1 Nephi 5:4, 18, 19, 22
1 Nephi 1:11
And they came down and went forth upon the face of the earth;
and the first came and stood before my father,
and gave unto him a book, and bade him that he should read.
1 Nephi 1:13
And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem,
for I have seen thine abominations!
Yea, and many things did my father read concerning Jerusalem —
that it should be destroyed, and the inhabitants thereof;
many should perish by the sword,
and many should be carried away captive into Babylon.
1 Nephi 1:18
Therefore, I would that ye should know, that
after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi,
yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem,
behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy
and to declare unto them concerning the things
which he had both seen and heard.
1 Nephi 2:2
And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream,
that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness.
1 Nephi 3:4
Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me
that thou and thy brothers should go unto the house of Laban,
and seek the records, and bring them down hither into the wilderness.
1 Nephi 3:11
And we cast lots — who of us should go in unto the house of Laban.
And it came to pass that the lot fell upon Laman;
and Laman went in unto the house of Laban,
and he talked with him as he sat in his house.
1 Nephi 3:13
And behold, it came to pass that Laban was angry,
and thrust him out from his presence;
and he would not that he should have the records.
Wherefore, he said unto him:
Behold thou art a robber, and I will slay thee.
1 Nephi 3:18
For behold, they have rejected the words of the prophets.
Wherefore, if my father should dwell in the land
after he hath been commanded to flee out of the land,
behold, he would also perish.
Wherefore, it must needs be that he flee out of the land.
1 Nephi 3:19
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 4:5
And it was by night;
and I caused that they should hide themselves without the walls.
And after they had hid themselves,
I, Nephi, crept into the city and went forth towards the house of Laban.
1 Nephi 4:6
And I was led by the Spirit,
not knowing beforehand the things which I should do.
1 Nephi 4:10
And it came to pass that
I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban;
but I said in my heart:
Never at any time have I shed the blood of man.
And I shrunk and would that I might not slay him.
1 Nephi 4:13
Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes.
It is better that one man should perish
than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.
1 Nephi 4:15
Yea, and I also thought that they could not keep the commandments of the Lord
according to the law of Moses, save they should have the law.
1 Nephi 4:20
And after I had done this, I went forth unto the treasury of Laban.
And as I went forth towards the treasury of Laban,
behold, I saw the servant of Laban who had the keys of the treasury.
And I commanded him in the voice of Laban,
that he should go with me into the treasury.
1 Nephi 4:24
And I also spake unto him that I should carry the engravings,
which were upon the plates of brass,
to my elder brethren, who were without the walls.
1 Nephi 4:25
And I also bade him that he should follow me.
1 Nephi 4:31
And now I, Nephi, being a man large in stature,
and also having received much strength of the Lord,
therefore I did seize upon the servant of Laban,
and held him, that he should not flee.
1 Nephi 4:33
And I spake unto him, even with an oath, that he need not fear;
that he should be a free man like unto us
if he would go down in the wilderness with us.
1 Nephi 4:36
Now we were desirous that he should tarry with us for this cause,
that the Jews might not know concerning our flight into the wilderness,
lest they should pursue us and destroy us.
1 Nephi 5:4
And it had come to pass that my father spake unto her, saying:
I know that I am a visionary man;
for if I had not seen the things of God in a vision
I should not have known the goodness of God,
but had tarried at Jerusalem, and had perished with my brethren.
1 Nephi 5:18
That these plates of brass should go forth
unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people who were of his seed.
1 Nephi 5:19
Wherefore, he said that these plates of brass should never perish;
neither should they be dimmed any more by time.
And he prophesied many things concerning his seed.
1 Nephi 5:22
Wherefore, it was wisdom in the Lord that we should carry them with us,
as we journeyed in the wilderness towards the land of promise.
