Unit 4

was

14 occurrences in 11 verses

1 Nephi 15:4, 5, 12, 14, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32

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 15:12

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 15:14

And at that day shall the remnant of our seed know

that they are of the house of Israel,

and that they are the covenant people of the Lord;

and then shall they know and come to the knowledge of their forefathers,

and also to the knowledge of the gospel of their Redeemer,

which was ministered unto their fathers by him;

wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer

and the very points of his doctrine,

that they may know how to come unto him and be saved.

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 15:27

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.