Unit 12

God

14 occurrences in 14 verses

2 Nephi 6:2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 17,

2 Nephi 7:4, 5, 7, 9,

2 Nephi 8:15, 20, 22

2 Nephi 6:2

Behold, my beloved brethren,

I, Jacob, having been called of God,

and ordained after the manner of his holy order,

and having been consecrated by my brother Nephi,

unto whom ye look as a king or a protector,

and on whom ye depend for safety,

behold ye know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many things.

2 Nephi 6:4

And now, behold, I would speak unto you

concerning things which are, and which are to come;

wherefore, I will read you the words of Isaiah.

And they are the words which my brother has desired

that I should speak unto you.

And I speak unto you for your sakes,

that ye may learn and glorify the name of your God.

2 Nephi 6:6

And now, these are the words:

Thus saith the Lord God:

Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,

and set up my standard to the people;

and they shall bring thy sons in their arms,

and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

2 Nephi 6:9

Nevertheless, the Lord has shown unto me

that they should return again.

And he also has shown unto me

that the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,

should manifest himself unto them in the flesh;

and after he should manifest himself

they should scourge him and crucify him,

according to the words of the angel who spake it unto me.

2 Nephi 6:12

And blessed are the Gentiles,

they of whom the prophet has written;

for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion,

and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church,

they shall be saved;

for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants

which he has made unto his children;

and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

2 Nephi 6:15

And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed,

both by fire, and by tempest, and by earthquakes,

and by bloodsheds, and by pestilence, and by famine.

And they shall know that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.

2 Nephi 6:17

But thus saith the Lord:

Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;

for the Mighty God shall deliver his covenant people.

For thus saith the Lord:

I will contend with them that contendeth with thee —

2 Nephi 7:4

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,

that I should know how to speak a word in season

unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye are weary

he waketh morning by morning.

He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.

2 Nephi 7:5

The Lord God hath opened mine ear,

and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

2 Nephi 7:7

For the Lord God will help me,

therefore shall I not be confounded.

Therefore have I set my face like a flint,

and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

2 Nephi 7:9

For the Lord God will help me.

And all they who shall condemn me,

behold, all they shall wax old as a garment,

and the moth shall eat them up.

2 Nephi 8:15

But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared;

the Lord of Hosts is my name.

2 Nephi 8:20

Thy sons have fainted, save these two;

they lie at the head of all the streets; as a wild bull in a net,

they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

2 Nephi 8:22

Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord

and thy God pleadeth the cause of his people;

behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,

the dregs of the cup of my fury;

thou shalt no more drink it again.