Unit 4

things

12 occurrences in 11 verses

1 Nephi 15:1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 19, 25, 27, 31, 32, 33

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 15:3

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 15:4

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 15:11

Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said? —

if ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith,

believing that ye shall receive,

with diligence in keeping my commandments,

surely these things shall be made known unto you.

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 15:25

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 15:31

And they said unto me:

Doth this thing mean the torment of the body in the days of probation,

or doth it mean the final state of the soul after the death of the temporal body,

or doth it speak of the things which are temporal?

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 15:33

Wherefore, if they should die in their wickedness

they must be cast off also, as to the things which are spiritual,

which are pertaining to righteousness;

wherefore, they must be brought to stand before God,

to be judged of their works;

and if their works have been filthiness they must needs be filthy;

and if they be filthy it must needs be

that they cannot dwell in the kingdom of God;

if so, the kingdom of God must be filthy also.