Unit 24

of your

17 occurrences in 13 verses -

Jacob 2:2, 3, 6, 13, 16, 17, 23, 35,

Jacob 3:4, 7, 8, 10, 11

Jacob 2:2

Now, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob,

according to the responsibility which I am under to God,

to magnify mine office with soberness,

and that I might rid my garments of your sins,

I come up into the temple this day

that I might declare unto you the word of God.

Jacob 2:3

And ye yourselves know that I have hitherto been diligent

in the office of my calling;

but I this day am weighed down

with much more desire and anxiety for the welfare of your souls

than I have hitherto been.

Jacob 2:6

Yea, it grieveth my soul and causeth me to shrink with shame

before the presence of my Maker,

that I must testify unto you concerning the wickedness of your hearts.

Jacob 2:13

And the hand of providence hath smiled upon you most pleasingly,

that you have obtained many riches;

and because some of you have obtained more abundantly

than that of your brethren

ye are lifted up in the pride of your hearts, and wear stiff necks and high heads

because of the costliness of your apparel,

and persecute your brethren

because ye suppose that ye are better than they.

Jacob 2:16

O that he would rid you from this iniquity and abomination.

And, O that ye would listen unto the word of his commands,

and let not this pride of your hearts destroy your souls!

Jacob 2:17

Think of your brethren like unto yourselves,

and be familiar with all and free with your substance,

that they may be rich like unto you.

Jacob 2:23

But the word of God burdens me because of your grosser crimes.

For behold, thus saith the Lord:

This people begin to wax in iniquity;

they understand not the scriptures,

for they seek to excuse themselves in committing whoredoms,

because of the things which were written concerning David, and Solomon his son.

Jacob 2:35

Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren.

Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives,

and lost the confidence of your children,

because of your bad examples before them;

and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you.

And because of the strictness of the word of God,

which cometh down against you,

many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.

Jacob 3:4

And the time speedily cometh, that except ye repent

they shall possess the land of your inheritance,

and the Lord God will lead away the righteous out from among you.

Jacob 3:7

Behold, their husbands love their wives,

and their wives love their husbands;

and their husbands and their wives love their children;

and their unbelief and their hatred towards you

is because of the iniquity of their fathers;

wherefore, how much better are you than they,

in the sight of your great Creator?

Jacob 3:8

O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins

that their skins will be whiter than yours,

when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.

Jacob 3:10

Wherefore, ye shall remember your children,

how that ye have grieved their hearts

because of the example that ye have set before them;

and also, remember that ye may, because of your filthiness,

bring your children unto destruction,

and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day.

Jacob 3:11

O my brethren, hearken unto my words;

arouse the faculties of your souls;

shake yourselves that ye may awake from the slumber of death;

and loose yourselves from the pains of hell

that ye may not become angels to the devil,

to be cast into that lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death.