Unit 81
therefore
15 occurrences in 14 verses
3 Nephi 3:4, 5, 6, 12, 19, 21,
3 Nephi 4:4, 6, 10, 17, 24,
3 Nephi 5:3, 10, 16
3 Nephi 3:4
And I, knowing of their unconquerable spirit,
having proved them in the field of battle,
and knowing of their everlasting hatred towards you
because of the many wrongs which ye have done unto them,
therefore if they should come down against you
they would visit you with utter destruction.
3 Nephi 3:5
therefore I have written this epistle,
sealing it with mine own hand,
feeling for your welfare,
because of your firmness in that which ye believe to be right,
and your noble spirit in the field of battle.
3 Nephi 3:6
therefore I write unto you,
desiring that ye would yield up unto this my people,
your cities, your lands, and your possessions,
rather than that they should visit you with the sword
and that destruction should come upon you.
3 Nephi 3:12
Now behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just man,
and could not be frightened by the demands and the threatenings of a robber;
therefore he did not hearken to the epistle of Giddianhi, the governor of the robbers,
but he did cause that his people should cry unto the Lord
for strength against the time that the robbers should come down against them.
3 Nephi 3:19
Now it was the custom among all the Nephites
to appoint for their chief captains, (save it were in their times of wickedness)
some one that had the spirit of revelation and also prophecy;
therefore, this Gidgiddoni was a great prophet among them,
as also was the chief judge.
3 Nephi 3:21
But Gidgiddoni saith unto them:
The Lord forbid;
for if we should go up against them
the Lord would deliver us into their hands;
therefore we will prepare ourselves in the center of our lands,
and we will gather all our armies together,
and we will not go against them,
but we will wait till they shall come against us;
therefore as the Lord liveth,
if we do this he will deliver them into our hands.
3 Nephi 4:4
therefore, there was no chance for the robbers to plunder and to obtain food,
save it were to come up in open battle against the Nephites;
and the Nephites being in one body,
and having so great a number,
and having reserved for themselves provisions,
and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind,
that they might subsist for the space of seven years,
in the which time they did hope
to destroy the robbers from off the face of the land;
and thus the eighteenth year did pass away.
3 Nephi 4:6
And they durst not spread themselves upon the face of the land
insomuch that they could raise grain,
lest the Nephites should come upon them and slay them;
therefore Giddianhi gave commandment unto his armies
that in this year they should go up to battle against the Nephites.
3 Nephi 4:10
But in this thing they were disappointed,
for the Nephites did not fear them;
but they did fear their God and did supplicate him for protection;
therefore, when the armies of Giddianhi did rush upon them
they were prepared to meet them;
yea, in the strength of the Lord they did receive them.
3 Nephi 4:17
Now they had appointed unto themselves another leader,
whose name was Zemnarihah;
therefore it was Zemnarihah that did cause that this siege should take place.
3 Nephi 4:24
And now, Gidgiddoni being aware of their design,
and knowing of their weakness because of the want of food,
and the great slaughter which had been made among them,
therefore he did send out his armies in the night-time,
and did cut off the way of their retreat,
and did place his armies in the way of their retreat.
3 Nephi 5:3
therefore they did forsake all their sins,
and their abominations, and their whoredoms,
and did serve God with all diligence day and night.
3 Nephi 5:10
therefore I have made my record of these things
according to the record of Nephi,
which was engraven on the plates which were called the plates of Nephi.
3 Nephi 5:16
therefore I do make my record from the accounts
which have been given by those who were before me,
until the commencement of my day;
