Unit 76

secret

9 occurrences in 8 verses

Helaman 3:23,

Helaman 6:17, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, 38

Helaman 3:23

And it came to pass in the forty and ninth year of the reign of the judges,

there was continual peace established in the land,

all save it were the secret combinations

which Gadianton the robber had established

in the more settled parts of the land,

which at that time were not known

unto those who were at the head of government;

therefore they were not destroyed out of the land.

Helaman 6:17

For behold, the Lord had blessed them so long with the riches of the world

that they had not been stirred up to anger, to wars, nor to bloodshed;

therefore they began to set their hearts upon their riches;

yea, they began to seek to get gain

that they might be lifted up one above another;

therefore they began to commit secret murders, and to rob and to plunder,

that they might get gain.

Helaman 6:22

And it came to pass that they did have their signs,

yea, their secret signs, and their secret words;

and this that they might distinguish a brother

who had entered into the covenant,

that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do

he should not be injured by his brother,

nor by those who did belong to his band,

who had taken this covenant.

Helaman 6:25

Now behold, it is these secret oaths and covenants

which Alma commanded his son should not go forth unto the world,

lest they should be a means of bringing down the people unto destruction.

Helaman 6:26

Now behold, those secret oaths and covenants did not come forth unto Gadianton

from the records which were delivered unto Helaman;

but behold, they were put into the heart of Gadianton

by that same being who did entice our first parents

to partake of the forbidden fruit—

Helaman 6:29

Yea, it is that same being who put it into the heart of Gadianton

to still carry on the work of darkness, and of secret murder;

and he has brought it forth from the beginning of man

even down to this time.

Helaman 6:30

And behold, it is he who is the author of all sin.

And behold, he doth carry on his works of darkness and secret murder,

and doth hand down their plots, and their oaths,

and their covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness,

from generation to generation

according as he can get hold upon the hearts of the children of men.

Helaman 6:38

And it came to pass on the other hand,

that the Nephites did build them up and support them,

beginning at the more wicked part of them,

until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites,

and had seduced the more part of the righteous

until they had come down to believe in their works

and partake of their spoils,

and to join with them in their secret murders and combinations.