Unit 3

them

44 occurrences in 33 verses



1 Nephi 10:2, 15, 19, 22,

1 Nephi 11:1, 28, 29, 30,

1 Nephi 12:3, 6, 9, 17, 18, 21,

1 Nephi 13:5, 9, 16, 17, 18, 20, 29, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40,

1 Nephi 14:1, 3, 5, 7, 25, 26, 29



1 Nephi 10:2

For behold, it came to pass after my father had made an end

of speaking the words of his dream, and also of exhorting them to all diligence,

he spake unto them concerning the Jews —



1 Nephi 10:15

And after this manner of language did my father prophesy

and speak unto my brethren,

and also many more things which I do not write in this book;

for I have written as many of them as were expedient for me in mine other book.



1 Nephi 10:19

For he that diligently seeketh shall find;

and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost,

as well in these times as in times of old,

and as well in times of old as in times to come;

wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round.



1 Nephi 10:22

And the Holy Ghost giveth authority

that I should speak these things, and deny them not.



1 Nephi 11:1

For it came to pass after I had desired

to know the things that my father had seen,

and believing that the Lord was able to make them known unto me,

as I sat pondering in mine heart

I was caught away in the Spirit of the Lord,

yea, into an exceedingly high mountain,

which I never had before seen,

and upon which I never had before set my foot.



1 Nephi 11:28

And I beheld that he went forth

ministering unto the people, in power and great glory;

and the multitudes were gathered together to hear him;

and I beheld that they cast him out from among them.



1 Nephi 11:29

And I also beheld twelve others following him.

And it came to pass that they were carried away in the Spirit from before my face,

and I saw them not.



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 12:3

And it came to pass that I beheld many generations pass away,

after the manner of wars and contentions in the land;

and I beheld many cities,

yea, even that I did not number them.



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 12:9

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 12:17

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 12:21

And I saw them gathered together in multitudes;

and I saw wars and rumors of wars among them;

and in wars and rumors of wars I saw many generations pass away.



1 Nephi 13:5

And the angel said unto me:

Behold the formation of a church

which is most abominable above all other churches,

which slayeth the saints of God,

yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down,

and yoketh them with a yoke of iron,

and bringeth them down into captivity.



1 Nephi 13:9

And also for the praise of the world do they destroy the saints of God,

and bring them down into captivity.



1 Nephi 13:16

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles

who had gone forth out of captivity

did humble themselves before the Lord;

and the power of the Lord was with them.



1 Nephi 13:17

And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together

upon the waters, and upon the land also,

to battle against them.



1 Nephi 13:18

And I beheld that the power of God was with them,

and also that the wrath of God was upon all those

that were gathered together against them to battle.



1 Nephi 13:20

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that they did prosper in the land;

and I beheld a book, and it was carried forth among them.



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 13:34

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 13:39

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 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 14:3

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 14:5

And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me, Nephi, saying:

Thou hast beheld that if the Gentiles repent it shall be well with them;

and thou also knowest concerning the covenants of the Lord

unto the house of Israel;

and thou also hast heard that whoso repenteth not must perish.



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 14:25

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 14:29

And I bear record that I saw the things which my father saw,

and the angel of the Lord did make them known unto me.