Unit 46

began to be

4 occurrences in 3 verses

Alma 4:8, 9, 15

Alma 4:8

For they saw and beheld with great sorrow

that the people of the church began to be lifted up in the pride of their eyes,

and to set their hearts upon riches and upon the vain things of the world,

that they began to be scornful, one towards another,

and they began to persecute those that did not believe

according to their own will and pleasure.

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.