Unit 25

upon

12 occurrences in 7 verses



Jacob 4:1, 2, 3, 9, 15, 16, 17



Jacob 4:1

Now behold, it came to pass that

I, Jacob, having ministered much unto my people in word,

(and I cannot write but a little of my words,

because of the difficulty of engraving our words upon plates)

and we know that the things which we write upon plates must remain;



Jacob 4:2

But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates

must perish and vanish away;

but we can write a few words upon plates,

which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren,

a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers —



Jacob 4:3

Now in this thing we do rejoice;

and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates,

hoping that our beloved brethren and our children

will receive them with thankful hearts,

and look upon them that they may learn with joy

and not with sorrow, neither with contempt,

concerning their first parents.



Jacob 4:9

For behold, by the power of his word

man came upon the face of the earth,

which earth was created by the power of his word.

Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was,

and to speak and man was created,

O then, why not able to command the earth,

or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it,

according to his will and pleasure?



Jacob 4:15

And now I, Jacob, am led on by the Spirit unto prophesying;

for I perceive by the workings of the Spirit which is in me,

that by the stumbling of the Jews they will reject the stone

upon which they might build and have safe foundation.



Jacob 4:16

But behold, according to the scriptures,

this stone shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure foundation,

upon which the Jews can build.



Jacob 4:17

And now, my beloved, how is it possible

that these, after having rejected the sure foundation, can ever build upon it,

that it may become the head of their corner?