Unit 18

his

28 occurrences in 18 verses

2 Nephi 25:13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21,

2 Nephi 26:3, 22, 24, 27, 28, 33,

2 Nephi 27:3, 13, 14, 33, 34

2 Nephi 25:13

Behold, they will crucify him;

and after he is laid in a sepulchre for the space of three days

he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his wings;

and all those who shall believe on his name shall be saved in the kingdom of God.

Wherefore, my soul delighteth to prophesy concerning him,

for I have seen his day, and my heart doth magnify his holy name.

2 Nephi 25:14

And behold it shall come to pass that

after the Messiah hath risen from the dead,

and hath manifested himself unto his people,

unto as many as will believe on his name,

behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again;

for wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church.

2 Nephi 25:16

And after they have been scattered,

and the Lord God hath scourged them

by other nations for the space of many generations,

yea, even down from generation to generation

until they shall be persuaded to believe in Christ, the Son of God,

and the atonement, which is infinite for all mankind —

and when that day shall come that they shall believe in Christ,

and worship the Father in his name, with pure hearts and clean hands,

and look not forward any more for another Messiah,

then, at that time, the day will come

that it must needs be expedient that they should believe these things.

2 Nephi 25:17

And the Lord will set his hand again the second time

to restore his people from their lost and fallen state.

Wherefore, he will proceed to do a marvelous work and a wonder

among the children of men.

2 Nephi 25:18

Wherefore, he shall bring forth his words unto them,

which words shall judge them at the last day,

for they shall be given them for the purpose of convincing them

of the true Messiah, who was rejected by them;

and unto the convincing of them

that they need not look forward any more for a Messiah to come,

for there should not any come, save it should be a false Messiah

which should deceive the people;

for there is save one Messiah spoken of by the prophets,

and that Messiah is he who should be rejected of the Jews.

2 Nephi 25:19

For according to the words of the prophets,

the Messiah cometh in six hundred years

from the time that my father left Jerusalem;

and according to the words of the prophets,

and also the word of the angel of God,

his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

2 Nephi 25:21

Wherefore, for this cause hath the Lord God promised unto me

that these things which I write shall be kept and preserved,

and handed down unto my seed, from generation to generation,

that the promise may be fulfilled unto Joseph,

that his seed should never perish as long as the earth should stand.

2 Nephi 26:3

And after the Messiah shall come

there shall be signs given unto my people of his birth,

and also of his death and resurrection;

and great and terrible shall that day be unto the wicked,

for they shall perish;

and they perish because they cast out the prophets, and the saints,

and stone them, and slay them;

wherefore the cry of the blood of the saints

shall ascend up to God from the ground against them.

2 Nephi 26:22

And there are also secret combinations, even as in times of old,

according to the combinations of the devil,

for he is the founder of all these things;

yea, the founder of murder, and works of darkness;

yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord,

until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever.

2 Nephi 26:24

He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world;

for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life

that he may draw all men unto him.

Wherefore, he commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.

2 Nephi 26:27

Hath he commanded any that they should not partake of his salvation?

Behold I say unto you, Nay;

but he hath given it free for all men;

and he hath commanded his people

that they should persuade all men to repentance.

2 Nephi 26:28

Behold, hath the Lord commanded any

that they should not partake of his goodness?

Behold I say unto you, Nay;

but all men are privileged the one like unto the other,

and none are forbidden.

2 Nephi 26:33

For none of these iniquities come of the Lord;

for he doeth that which is good among the children of men;

and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men;

and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness;

and he denieth none that come unto him,

black and white, bond and free, male and female;

and he remembereth the heathen;

and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.

2 Nephi 27:3

And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that distress her,

shall be as a dream of a night vision;

yea, it shall be unto them,

even as unto a hungry man which dreameth,

and behold he eateth

but he awaketh and his soul is empty;

or like unto a thirsty man which dreameth,

and behold he drinketh

but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite;

yea, even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

2 Nephi 27:13

And there is none other which shall view it,

save it be a few according to the will of God,

to bear testimony of his word unto the children of men;

for the Lord God hath said

that the words of the faithful should speak as if it were from the dead.

2 Nephi 27:14

Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to bring forth the words of the book;

and in the mouth of as many witnesses as seemeth him good

will he establish his word;

and wo be unto him that rejecteth the word of God!

2 Nephi 27:33

Therefore, thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham,

concerning the house of Jacob:

Jacob shall not now be ashamed,

neither shall his face now wax pale.

2 Nephi 27:34

But when he seeth his children,

the work of my hands, in the midst of him,

they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,

and shall fear the God of Israel.