Unit 24
wherefore
11 occurrences in 11 verses -
Jacob 2:9, 11, 25, 26, 27, 29, 34,
Jacob 3:6, 7, 9, 10
Jacob 2:9
wherefore, it burdeneth my soul that I should be constrained,
because of the strict commandment which I have received from God,
to admonish you according to your crimes,
to enlarge the wounds of those who are already wounded,
instead of consoling and healing their wounds;
and those who have not been wounded,
instead of feasting upon the pleasing word of God
have daggers placed to pierce their souls and wound their delicate minds.
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 2:25
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 2:27
wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord:
For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife;
and concubines he shall have none;
Jacob 2:29
wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts,
or cursed be the land for their sakes.
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 3:6
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 3:7
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 3:9
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.