Unit 51

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24 occurrences in 17 verses

Alma 9:3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34

Alma 9:3

Now they understood not the words which they spake;

for they knew not that the earth should pass away.

Alma 9:4

And they said also:

We will not believe thy words

if thou shouldst prophesy that this great city should be destroyed in one day.

Alma 9:5

Now they knew not that God could do such marvelous works,

for they were a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.

Alma 9:7

And they stood forth to lay their hands on me;

but behold, they did not.

And I stood with boldness to declare unto them,

yea, I did boldly testify unto them, saying:

Alma 9:9

Do ye not remember

that our father, Lehi, was brought out of Jerusalem by the hand of God?

Do ye not remember that they were all led by him through the wilderness?

Alma 9:11

Yea, and if it had not been for his matchless power,

and his mercy, and his long-suffering towards us,

we should unavoidably have been cut off from the face of the earth

long before this period of time,

and perhaps been consigned to a state of endless misery and woe.

Alma 9:12

Behold, now I say unto you that he commandeth you to repent;

and except ye repent, ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.

But behold, this is not all —

he has commanded you to repent,

or he will utterly destroy you from off the face of the earth;

yea, he will visit you in his anger,

and in his fierce anger he will not turn away.

Alma 9:13

Behold, do ye not remember the words which he spake unto Lehi,

saying that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments,

ye shall prosper in the land?

And again it is said that: Inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments

ye shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord.

Alma 9:14

Now I would that ye should remember,

that inasmuch as the Lamanites have not kept the commandments of God,

they have been cut off from the presence of the Lord.

Now we see that the word of the Lord has been verified in this thing,

and the Lamanites have been cut off from his presence,

from the beginning of their transgressions in the land.

Alma 9:18

But behold, I say unto you that

if ye persist in your wickedness

that your days shall not be prolonged in the land,

for the Lamanites shall be sent upon you;

and if ye repent not

they shall come in a time when you know not,

and ye shall be visited with utter destruction;

and it shall be according to the fierce anger of the Lord.

Alma 9:19

For he will not suffer you that ye shall live in your iniquities,

to destroy his people.

I say unto you,

Nay; he would rather suffer that the Lamanites might destroy all his people

who are called the people of Nephi,

if it were possible that they could fall into sins and transgressions,

after having had so much light and so much knowledge

given unto them of the Lord their God;

Alma 9:22

Yea, and after having been delivered of God

out of the land of Jerusalem, by the hand of the Lord;

having been saved from famine,

and from sickness, and all manner of diseases of every kind;

and they having waxed strong in battle, that they might not be destroyed;

having been brought out of bondage time after time,

and having been kept and preserved until now;

and they have been prospered until they are rich in all manner of things —

Alma 9:24

For behold, the promises of the Lord are extended to the Lamanites,

but they are not unto you if ye transgress;

for has not the Lord expressly promised and firmly decreed,

that if ye will rebel against him

that ye shall utterly be destroyed from off the face of the earth?

Alma 9:25

And now for this cause, that ye may not be destroyed,

the Lord has sent his angel to visit many of his people,

declaring unto them that they must go forth

and cry mightily unto this people, saying:

Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is nigh at hand;

Alma 9:26

And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory;

and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father,

full of grace, equity, and truth,

full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering,

quick to hear the cries of his people and to answer their prayers.

Alma 9:33

But it came to pass that the Lord did not suffer them

that they should take me at that time and cast me into prison.

Alma 9:34

And it came to pass that Amulek went and stood forth,

and began to preach unto them also.

And now the words of Amulek are not all written,

nevertheless a part of his words are written in this book.