Unit 47

and now I

8 occurrences in 8 verses



Alma 5:8, 10, 22, 46, 49, 57, 60, 61



Alma 5:8

and now I ask of you, my brethren,

were they destroyed?

Behold, I say unto you,

Nay, they were not.



Alma 5:10

and now I ask of you

on what conditions are they saved?

Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation?

What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death,

yea, and also the chains of hell?



Alma 5:22

and now I ask of you, my brethren,

how will any of you feel, if ye shall stand before the bar of God,

having your garments stained with blood and all manner of filthiness?

Behold, what will these things testify against you?



Alma 5:46

Behold, I say unto you

they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit of God.

Behold, I have fasted and prayed many days

that I might know these things of myself.

and now I do know of myself that they are true;

for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit;

and this is the spirit of revelation which is in me.



Alma 5:49

and now I say unto you

that this is the order after which I am called,

yea, to preach unto my beloved brethren,

yea, and every one that dwelleth in the land;

yea, to preach unto all,

both old and young, both bond and free;

yea, I say unto you

the aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation;

yea, to cry unto them that they must repent and be born again.



Alma 5:57

and now I say unto you,

all you that are desirous to follow the voice of the good shepherd,

come ye out from the wicked,

and be ye separate, and touch not their unclean things;

and behold, their names shall be blotted out,

that the names of the wicked shall not be numbered

among the names of the righteous,

that the word of God may be fulfilled, which saith:

The names of the wicked shall not be mingled with the names of my people;



Alma 5:60

and now I say unto you

that the good shepherd doth call after you;

and if you will hearken unto his voice

he will bring you into his fold, and ye are his sheep;

and he commandeth you that ye suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among you,

that ye may not be destroyed.



Alma 5:61

and now I, Alma, do command you

in the language of him who hath commanded me,

that ye observe to do the words which I have spoken unto you.