Unit 24

unto

42 occurrences in 28 verses -

Jacob 2:1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34,

Jacob 3:1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12

Jacob 2:1

The words which Jacob, the brother of Nephi, spake

unto the people of Nephi, after the death of Nephi:

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 2:4

For behold, as yet, ye have been obedient

unto the word of the Lord, which I have given unto you.

Jacob 2:5

But behold, hearken ye unto me, and know

that by the help of the all-powerful Creator of heaven and earth

I can tell you concerning your thoughts,

how that ye are beginning to labor in sin,

which sin appeareth very abominable unto me,

yea, and abominable unto God.

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 2:7

And also it grieveth me that I must use so much boldness of speech

concerning you, before your wives and your children,

many of whose feelings are exceedingly tender and chaste and delicate before God,

which thing is pleasing unto God;

Jacob 2:11

Wherefore, I must tell you the truth

according to the plainness of the word of God.

For behold, as I inquired of the Lord,

thus came the word unto me, saying:

Jacob, get thou up into the temple on the morrow,

and declare the word which I shall give thee unto this people.

Jacob 2:12

And now behold, my brethren, this is the word which I declare unto you,

that many of you have begun to search for gold, and for silver,

and for all manner of precious ores,

in the which this land,

which is a land of promise unto you and to your seed,

doth abound most plentifully.

Jacob 2:14

And now, my brethren, do ye suppose

that God justifieth you in this thing?

Behold, I say unto you, Nay.

But he condemneth you,

and if ye persist in these things

his judgments must speedily come unto you.

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 2:20

And now, my brethren, I have spoken unto you concerning pride;

and those of you which have afflicted your neighbor, and persecuted him

because ye were proud in your hearts, of the things which God hath given you,

what say ye of it?

Jacob 2:21

Do ye not suppose that such things are abominable

unto him who created all flesh?

And the one being is as precious in his sight as the other.

And all flesh is of the dust;

and for the selfsame end hath he created them,

that they should keep his commandments and glorify him forever.

Jacob 2:22

And now I make an end of speaking unto you concerning this pride.

And were it not that I must speak unto you concerning a grosser crime,

my heart would rejoice exceedingly because of you.

Jacob 2:25

Wherefore, thus saith the Lord,

I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem,

by the power of mine arm,

that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch

from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.

Jacob 2:26

Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer

that this people shall do like unto them of old.

Jacob 2:30

For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me,

I will command my people;

otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.

Jacob 2:32

And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts,

that the cries of the fair daughters of this people,

which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem,

shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Jacob 2:33

For they shall not lead away captive the daughters of my people

because of their tenderness,

save I shall visit them with a sore curse, even unto destruction;

for they shall not commit whoredoms,

like unto them of old, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Jacob 2:34

And now behold, my brethren,

ye know that these commandments were given to our father, Lehi;

wherefore, ye have known them before;

and ye have come unto great condemnation;

for ye have done these things which ye ought not to have done.

Jacob 3:1

But behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart.

Look unto God with firmness of mind,

and pray unto him with exceeding faith,

and he will console you in your afflictions,

and he will plead your cause,

and send down justice upon those who seek your destruction.

Jacob 3:3

But, wo, wo, unto you that are not pure in heart,

that are filthy this day before God;

for except ye repent the land is cursed for your sakes;

and the Lamanites, which are not filthy like unto you,

nevertheless they are cursed with a sore cursing,

shall scourge you even unto destruction.

Jacob 3:5

Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate

because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins,

are more righteous than you;

for they have not forgotten the commandment of the Lord,

which was given unto our father —

that they should have save it were one wife,

and concubines they should have none,

and there should not be whoredoms committed among them.

Jacob 3:6

And now, this commandment they observe to keep;

wherefore, because of this observance, in keeping this commandment,

the Lord God will not destroy them, but will be merciful unto them;

and one day they shall become a blessed people.

Jacob 3:9

Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, which is the word of God,

that ye revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins;

neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthiness;

but ye shall remember your own filthiness,

and remember that their filthiness came because of their fathers.

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.

Jacob 3:12

And now I, Jacob, spake many more things unto the people of Nephi,

warning them against fornication and lasciviousness, and every kind of sin,

telling them the awful consequences of them.