Unit 3

yea

25 occurrences in 24 verses



1 Nephi 10:3, 4, 8, 12,

1 Nephi 11:1, 5, 6, 8, 21, 22, 23, 32, 35,

1 Nephi 12:1, 3, 16, 18,

1 Nephi 13:5, 29, 37,

1 Nephi 14:2, 3, 8, 21



1 Nephi 10:3

That after they should be destroyed,

even that great city Jerusalem,

and many be carried away captive into Babylon,

according to the own due time of the Lord, they should return again,

yea, even be brought back out of captivity;

and after they should be brought back out of captivity

they should possess again the land of their inheritance.



1 Nephi 10:4

yea, even six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem,

a prophet would the Lord God raise up among the Jews —

even a Messiah, or, in other words, a Savior of the world.



1 Nephi 10:8

yea, even he should go forth and cry in the wilderness:

Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight;

for there standeth one among you whom ye know not;

and he is mightier than I,

whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

And much spake my father concerning this thing.



1 Nephi 10:12

yea, even my father spake much concerning the Gentiles,

and also concerning the house of Israel,

that they should be compared like unto an olive tree,

whose branches should be broken off

and should be scattered upon all the face of the earth.



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 11:5

And I said:

yea, thou knowest that I believe all the words of my father.



1 Nephi 11:6

And when I had spoken these words,

the Spirit cried with a loud voice, saying:

Hosanna to the Lord, the most high God;

for he is God over all the earth, yea, even above all.

And blessed art thou, Nephi, because thou believest in the Son of the most high God;

wherefore, thou shalt behold the things which thou hast desired.



1 Nephi 11:8

And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me: Look!

And I looked and beheld a tree;

and it was like unto the tree which my father had seen;

and the beauty thereof was far beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty;

and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow.



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 11:22

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 11:23

And he spake unto me, saying:

yea, and the most joyous to the soul.



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 11:35

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 12:1

And it came to pass that the angel said unto me:

Look, and behold thy seed, and also the seed of thy brethren.

And I looked and beheld the land of promise;

and I beheld multitudes of people,

yea, even as it were in number as many as the sand of the sea.



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 12:16

And the angel spake unto me, saying:

Behold the fountain of filthy water which thy father saw;

yea, even the river of which he spake;

and the depths thereof are the depths of hell.



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 13:5

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 13:29

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 13:37

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 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 14:8

And it came to pass that

when the angel had spoken these words,

he said unto me: Rememberest thou the covenants of the Father unto the house of Israel?

I said unto him, yea.



1 Nephi 14:21

Behold, he shall see and write the remainder of these things;

yea, and also many things which have been.