Unit 4

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32 occurrences in 22 verses

1 Nephi 15:1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36

1 Nephi 15:1

And it came to pass that

after I, Nephi, had been carried away in the Spirit, and seen all these things,

I returned to the tent of my father.

1 Nephi 15:2

And it came to pass that I beheld my brethren,

and they were disputing one with another

concerning the things which my father had spoken unto them.

1 Nephi 15:4

And now I, Nephi, was grieved because of the hardness of their hearts,

and also, because of the things which I had seen,

and knew they must unavoidably come to pass

because of the great wickedness of the children of men.

1 Nephi 15:5

And it came to pass that I was overcome because of my afflictions,

for I considered that mine afflictions were great above all,

because of the destruction of my people,

for I had beheld their fall.

1 Nephi 15:6

And it came to pass that after I had received strength

I spake unto my brethren,

desiring to know of them the cause of their disputations.

1 Nephi 15:8

And I said unto them:

Have ye inquired of the Lord?

1 Nephi 15:10

Behold, I said unto them:

How is it that ye do not keep the commandments of the Lord?

How is it that ye will perish, because of the hardness of your hearts?

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 15:19

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, spake much unto them concerning these things;

yea, I spake unto them concerning the restoration of the Jews in the latter days.

1 Nephi 15:20

And I did rehearse unto them the words of Isaiah,

who spake concerning the restoration of the Jews, or of the house of Israel;

and after they were restored they should no more be confounded,

neither should they be scattered again.

And it came to pass that I did speak many words unto my brethren,

that they were pacified and did humble themselves before the Lord.

1 Nephi 15:22

And I said unto them:

It was a representation of the tree of life.

1 Nephi 15:24

And I said unto them that it was the word of God;

and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it,

they would never perish;

neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary

overpower them unto blindness,

to lead them away to destruction.

1 Nephi 15:25

Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give heed unto the word of the Lord;

yea, I did exhort them with all the energies of my soul,

and with all the faculty which I possessed,

that they would give heed to the word of God

and remember to keep his commandments always in all things.

1 Nephi 15:27

And I said unto them that the water which my father saw was filthiness;

and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things

that he beheld not the filthiness of the water.

1 Nephi 15:28

And I said unto them that it was an awful gulf,

which separated the wicked from the tree of life, and also from the saints of God.

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.

1 Nephi 15:36

Wherefore, the wicked are rejected from the righteous,

and also from that tree of life,

whose fruit is most precious and most desirable above all other fruits;

yea, and it is the greatest of all the gifts of God.

And thus I spake unto my brethren.

Amen.