Unit 3
the Lamb
57 occurrences in 42 verses
1 Nephi 10:10,
1 Nephi 11:21, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36,
1 Nephi 12:6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18,
1 Nephi 13:24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41,
1 Nephi 14:1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27
1 Nephi 10:10
And after he had baptized the Messiah with water,
he should behold and bear record that he had baptized the Lamb of God,
who should take away the sins of the world.
1 Nephi 11:21
And the angel said unto me:
Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father!
Knowest thou the meaning of the tree which thy father saw?
1 Nephi 11:27
And I looked and beheld the Redeemer of the world,
of whom my father had spoken;
and I also beheld the prophet who should prepare the way before him.
And the Lamb of God went forth and was baptized of him;
and after he was baptized,
I beheld the heavens open,
and the Holy Ghost come down out of heaven
and abide upon him in the form of a dove.
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 11:32
And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me again, saying: Look!
And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God,
that he was taken by the people;
yea, the Son of the everlasting God was judged of the world;
and I saw and bear record.
1 Nephi 11:34
And after he was slain I saw the multitudes of the earth,
that they were gathered together to fight against the apostles of the Lamb;
for thus were the twelve called by the angel of the Lord.
1 Nephi 11:35
And the multitude of the earth was gathered together;
and I beheld that they were in a large and spacious building,
like unto the building which my father saw.
And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying:
Behold the world and the wisdom thereof;
yea, behold the house of Israel hath gathered together
to fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1 Nephi 11:36
And it came to pass that I saw and bear record,
that the great and spacious building was the pride of the world;
and it fell, and the fall thereof was exceedingly great.
And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying:
Thus shall be the destruction of all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people,
that shall fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1 Nephi 12:6
And I saw the heavens open,
and the Lamb of God descending out of heaven;
and he came down and showed himself unto them.
1 Nephi 12:8
And the angel spake unto me, saying:
Behold the Twelve Disciples of the Lamb,
who are chosen to minister unto thy seed.
1 Nephi 12:9
And he said unto me:
Thou rememberest the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb?
Behold they are they who shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel;
wherefore, the twelve ministers of thy seed shall be judged of them;
for ye are of the house of Israel.
1 Nephi 12:10
And these twelve ministers whom thou beholdest shall judge thy seed.
And, behold, they are righteous forever;
for because of their faith in the Lamb of God
their garments are made white in his blood.
1 Nephi 12:11
And the angel said unto me: Look!
And I looked, and beheld three generations pass away in righteousness;
and their garments were white even like unto the Lamb of God.
And the angel said unto me:
These are made white in the blood of the Lamb,
because of their faith in him.
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 13:24
And the angel of the Lord said unto me:
Thou hast beheld that the book proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew;
and when it proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew
it contained the fulness of the gospel of the Lord,
of whom the twelve apostles bear record;
and they bear record according to the truth which is in the Lamb of God.
1 Nephi 13:26
And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,
from the Jews unto the Gentiles,
thou seest the formation of that great and abominable church,
which is most abominable above all other churches;
for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb
many parts which are plain and most precious;
and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away.
1 Nephi 13:28
Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth
through the hands of the great and abominable church,
that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book,
which is the book of the Lamb of God.
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 13:32
Neither will the Lord God suffer that the Gentiles shall forever remain
in that awful state of blindness, which thou beholdest they are in,
because of the plain and most precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb
which have been kept back by that abominable church,
whose formation thou hast seen.
1 Nephi 13:33
Wherefore saith the Lamb of God:
I will be merciful unto the Gentiles,
unto the visiting of the remnant of the house of Israel in great judgment.
1 Nephi 13:34
And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord spake unto me, saying:
Behold, saith the Lamb of God,
after I have visited the remnant of the house of Israel
— and this remnant of whom I speak is the seed of thy father —
wherefore, after I have visited them in judgment,
and smitten them by the hand of the Gentiles,
and after the Gentiles do stumble exceedingly,
because of the most plain and precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb
which have been kept back by that abominable church,
which is the mother of harlots, saith the Lamb —
I will be merciful unto the Gentiles in that day,
insomuch that I will bring forth unto them, in mine own power,
much of my gospel, which shall be plain and precious, saith the Lamb.
1 Nephi 13:35
For, behold, saith the Lamb: I will manifest myself unto thy seed,
that they shall write many things which I shall minister unto them,
which shall be plain and precious;
and after thy seed shall be destroyed, and dwindle in unbelief,
and also the seed of thy brethren,
behold, these things shall be hid up, to come forth unto the Gentiles,
by the gift and power of the Lamb.
1 Nephi 13:36
And in them shall be written my gospel, saith the Lamb,
and my rock and my salvation.
1 Nephi 13:37
And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day,
for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost;
and if they endure unto the end
they shall be lifted up at the last day,
and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb;
and whoso shall publish peace,
yea, tidings of great joy,
how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be.
1 Nephi 13:38
And it came to pass that I beheld the remnant of the seed of my brethren,
and also the book of the Lamb of God,
which had proceeded forth from the mouth of the Jew,
that it came forth from the Gentiles
unto the remnant of the seed of my brethren.
1 Nephi 13:39
And after it had come forth unto them I beheld other books,
which came forth by the power of the Lamb, from the Gentiles unto them,
unto the convincing of the Gentiles and the remnant of the seed of my brethren,
and also the Jews who were scattered upon all the face of the earth,
that the records of the prophets and of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are true.
1 Nephi 13:40
And the angel spake unto me, saying:
These last records, which thou hast seen among the Gentiles,
shall establish the truth of the first,
which are of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,
and shall make known the plain and precious things
which have been taken away from them;
and shall make known to all kindreds, tongues, and people,
that the Lamb of God is the Son of the Eternal Father, and the Savior of the world;
and that all men must come unto him, or they cannot be saved.
1 Nephi 13:41
And they must come according to the words
which shall be established by the mouth of the Lamb;
and the words of the Lamb shall be made known in the records of thy seed,
as well as in the records of the twelve apostles of the Lamb;
wherefore they both shall be established in one;
for there is one God and one Shepherd over all the earth.
1 Nephi 14:1
And it shall come to pass, that
if the Gentiles shall hearken unto the Lamb of God in that day
that he shall manifest himself unto them in word, and also in power, in very deed,
unto the taking away of their stumbling blocks —
1 Nephi 14:2
And harden not their hearts against the Lamb of God,
they shall be numbered among the seed of thy father;
yea, they shall be numbered among the house of Israel;
and they shall be a blessed people upon the promised land forever;
they shall be no more brought down into captivity;
and the house of Israel shall no more be confounded.
1 Nephi 14:3
And that great pit, which hath been digged for them
by that great and abominable church,
which was founded by the devil and his children,
that he might lead away the souls of men down to hell —
yea, that great pit which hath been digged for the destruction of men
shall be filled by those who digged it,
unto their utter destruction, saith the Lamb of God;
not the destruction of the soul,
save it be the casting of it into that hell which hath no end.
1 Nephi 14:6
Therefore, wo be unto the Gentiles
if it so be that they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God.
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.
1 Nephi 14:10
And he said unto me:
Behold there are save two churches only;
the one is the church of the Lamb of God,
and the other is the church of the devil;
wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God
belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations;
and she is the whore of all the earth.
1 Nephi 14:12
And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God,
and its numbers were few,
because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore
who sat upon many waters;
nevertheless, I beheld that the church of the Lamb, who were the saints of God,
were also upon all the face of the earth;
and their dominions upon the face of the earth were small,
because of the wickedness of the great whore whom I saw.
1 Nephi 14:13
And it came to pass that I beheld that the great mother of abominations
did gather together multitudes upon the face of all the earth,
among all the nations of the Gentiles,
to fight against the Lamb of God.
1 Nephi 14:14
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God,
that it descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb,
and upon the covenant people of the Lord,
who were scattered upon all the face of the earth;
and they were armed with righteousness
and with the power of God in great glory.
1 Nephi 14:20
And the angel said unto me:
Behold one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1 Nephi 14:24
And behold, the things which this apostle of the Lamb shall write
are many things which thou hast seen;
and behold, the remainder shalt thou see.
1 Nephi 14:25
But the things which thou shalt see hereafter
thou shalt not write;
for the Lord God hath ordained the apostle of the Lamb of God
that he should write them.
1 Nephi 14:26
And also others who have been,
to them hath he shown all things,
and they have written them;
and they are sealed up to come forth in their purity,
according to the truth which is in the Lamb,
in the own due time of the Lord,
unto the house of Israel.
1 Nephi 14:27
And I, Nephi, heard and bear record,
that the name of the apostle of the Lamb was John,
according to the word of the angel.
