Unit 46

God

8 occurrences in 7 verses

Alma 4:3, 4, 5, 9, 15, 19, 20

Alma 4:3

And so great were their afflictions that every soul had cause to mourn;

and they believed that it was the judgments of God sent upon them

because of their wickedness and their abominations;

therefore they were awakened to a remembrance of their duty.

Alma 4:4

And they began to establish the church more fully;

yea, and many were baptized in the waters of Sidon

and were joined to the church of God;

yea, they were baptized by the hand of Alma,

who had been consecrated the high priest over the people of the church,

by the hand of his father Alma.

Alma 4:5

And it came to pass in the seventh year of the reign of the judges

there were about three thousand five hundred souls

that united themselves to the church of God and were baptized.

And thus ended the seventh year

of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi;

and there was continual peace in all that time.

Alma 4:9

And thus, in this eighth year of the reign of the judges,

there began to be great contentions among the people of the church;

yea, there were envyings, and strife, and malice, and persecutions, and pride,

even to exceed the pride of those who did not belong to the church of God.

Alma 4:15

And now it came to pass that

Alma, having seen the afflictions of the humble followers of God,

and the persecutions which were heaped upon them by the remainder of his people,

and seeing all their inequality,

began to be very sorrowful;

nevertheless the Spirit of the Lord did not fail him.

Alma 4:19

And this he did that he himself might go forth among his people,

or among the people of Nephi,

that he might preach the word of God unto them,

to stir them up in remembrance of their duty,

and that he might pull down, by the word of God,

all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people,

seeing no way that he might reclaim them

save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them.

Alma 4:20

And thus in the commencement of the ninth year

of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi,

Alma delivered up the judgment-seat to Nephihah,

and confined himself wholly to the high priesthood of the holy order of God,

to the testimony of the word, according to the spirit of revelation and prophecy.