Unit 3
the children of men
10 occurrences in 10 verses
1 Nephi 10:17,
1 Nephi 11:22, 24, 30, 31,
1 Nephi 12:17, 18,
1 Nephi 13:27, 29,
1 Nephi 14:7
1 Nephi 10:17
And it came to pass after I, Nephi, having heard all the words of my father,
concerning the things which he saw in a vision,
and also the things which he spake by the power of the Holy Ghost,
which power he received by faith on the Son of God
— and the Son of God was the Messiah who should come —
I, Nephi, was desirous also
that I might see, and hear, and know of these things, by the power of the Holy Ghost,
which is the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him,
as well in times of old
as in the time that he should manifest himself unto the children of men.
1 Nephi 11:22
And I answered him, saying:
Yea, it is the love of God,
which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men;
wherefore, it is the most desirable above all things.
1 Nephi 11:24
And after he had said these words,
he said unto me: Look!
And I looked, and I beheld the Son of God
going forth among the children of men;
and I saw many fall down at his feet and worship him.
1 Nephi 11:30
And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me again, saying: Look!
And I looked, and I beheld the heavens open again,
and I saw angels descending upon the children of men;
and they did minister unto them.
1 Nephi 11:31
And he spake unto me again, saying: Look!
And I looked, and I beheld the Lamb of God
going forth among the children of men.
And I beheld multitudes of people who were sick,
and who were afflicted with all manner of diseases,
and with devils and unclean spirits;
and the angel spake and showed all these things unto me.
And they were healed by the power of the Lamb of God;
and the devils and the unclean spirits were cast out.
1 Nephi 12:17
And the mists of darkness are the temptations of the devil,
which blindeth the eyes, and hardeneth the hearts of the children of men,
and leadeth them away into broad roads,
that they perish and are lost.
1 Nephi 12:18
And the large and spacious building, which thy father saw,
is vain imaginations and the pride of the children of men.
And a great and a terrible gulf divideth them;
yea, even the word of the justice of the Eternal God, and the Messiah
who is the Lamb of God,
of whom the Holy Ghost beareth record,
from the beginning of the world until this time,
and from this time henceforth and forever.
1 Nephi 13:27
And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord,
that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men.
1 Nephi 13:29
And after these plain and precious things were taken away
it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles;
and after it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles,
yea, even across the many waters which thou hast seen
with the Gentiles which have gone forth out of captivity,
thou seest — because of the many plain and precious things
which have been taken out of the book,
which were plain unto the understanding of the children of men,
according to the plainness which is in the Lamb of God —
because of these things which are taken away out of the gospel of the Lamb,
an exceedingly great many do stumble,
yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.
1 Nephi 14:7
For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God,
that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men;
a work which shall be everlasting,
either on the one hand or on the other —
either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal,
or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts
and the blindness of their minds
unto their being brought down into captivity,
and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually,
according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken.
