Unit 3
great
30 occurrences in 26 verses
1 Nephi 10:3, 5,
1 Nephi 11:13, 28, 36,
1 Nephi 12:2, 5, 18,
1 Nephi 13:4, 6, 8, 23, 26, 28, 29, 33, 37,
1 Nephi 14:3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17
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 10:5
And he also spake concerning the prophets,
how great a number had testified of these things,
concerning this Messiah, of whom he had spoken,
or this Redeemer of the world.
1 Nephi 11:13
And it came to pass that I looked
and beheld the great city of Jerusalem, and also other cities.
And I beheld the city of Nazareth;
and in the city of Nazareth I beheld a virgin,
and she was exceedingly fair and white.
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 11:36
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 12:2
And it came to pass that I beheld multitudes gathered together
to battle, one against the other;
and I beheld wars, and rumors of wars,
and great slaughters with the sword among my people.
1 Nephi 12:5
And it came to pass after I saw these things,
I saw the vapor of darkness,
that it passed from off the face of the earth;
and behold, I saw multitudes who had not fallen
because of the great and terrible judgments of the Lord.
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 13:4
And it came to pass that I saw among the nations of the Gentiles
the formation of a great church.
1 Nephi 13:6
And it came to pass that I beheld this great and abominable church;
and I saw the devil that he was the founder of it.
1 Nephi 13:8
And the angel spake unto me, saying:
Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets,
and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots,
are the desires of this great and abominable church.
1 Nephi 13:23
And he said:
Behold it proceedeth out of the mouth of a Jew.
And I, Nephi, beheld it;
and he said unto me:
The book that thou beholdest is a record of the Jews,
which contains the covenants of the Lord,
which he hath made unto the house of Israel;
and it also containeth many of the prophecies of the holy prophets;
and it is a record like unto the engravings
which are upon the plates of brass,
save there are not so many;
nevertheless, they contain the covenants of the Lord,
which he hath made unto the house of Israel;
wherefore, they are of great worth unto the Gentiles.
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 13:33
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 13:37
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 14:3
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 14:7
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 14:9
And it came to pass that he said unto me:
Look, and behold that great and abominable church,
which is the mother of abominations, whose founder is the devil.
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 14:15
And it came to pass that I beheld that
the wrath of God was poured out upon that great and abominable church,
insomuch that there were wars and rumors of wars
among all the nations and kindreds of the earth.
1 Nephi 14:17
And when the day cometh
that the wrath of God is poured out upon the mother of harlots,
which is the great and abominable church of all the earth,
whose founder is the devil,
then, at that day, the work of the Father shall commence,
in preparing the way for the fulfilling of his covenants,
which he hath made to his people who are of the house of Israel.
