Unit 4

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10 occurrences in 10 verses



1 Nephi 15:3, 12, 16, 21, 22, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35



1 Nephi 15:3

For he truly spake many great things unto them,

which were hard to be understood,

save a man should inquire of the Lord;

and they being hard in their hearts,

therefore they did not look unto the Lord as they ought.



1 Nephi 15:12

Behold, I say unto you, that the house of Israel was compared unto an olive tree,

by the Spirit of the Lord which was in our father;

and behold are we not broken off from the house of Israel,

and are we not a branch of the house of Israel?



1 Nephi 15:16

Behold, I say unto you,

yea; they shall be remembered again among the house of Israel;

they shall be grafted in,

being a natural branch of the olive tree,

into the true olive tree.



1 Nephi 15:21

And it came to pass that they did speak unto me again, saying:

What meaneth this thing which our father saw in a dream?

What meaneth the tree which he saw?



1 Nephi 15:22

And I said unto them:

It was a representation of the tree of life.



1 Nephi 15:29

And I said unto them that it was a representation of that awful hell,

which the angel said unto me was prepared for the wicked.



1 Nephi 15:30

And I said unto them that our father also saw

that the justice of God did also divide the wicked from the righteous;

and the brightness thereof was like unto the brightness of a flaming fire,

which ascendeth up unto God forever and ever, and hath no end.



1 Nephi 15:32

And it came to pass that I said unto them

that it was a representation of things both temporal and spiritual;

for the day should come that they must be judged of their works,

yea, even the works which were done by the temporal body

in their days of probation.



1 Nephi 15:34

But behold, I say unto you, the kingdom of God is not filthy,

and there cannot any unclean thing enter into the kingdom of God;

wherefore there must needs be a place of filthiness

prepared for that which is filthy.



1 Nephi 15:35

And there is a place prepared,

yea, even that awful hell of which I have spoken,

and the devil is the preparator of it;

wherefore the final state of the souls of men

is to dwell in the kingdom of God, or to be cast out

because of that justice of which I have spoken.