Unit 86

the Father

22 occurrences in 19 verses

3 Nephi 15:13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24,

3 Nephi 16:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16

3 Nephi 15:13

And behold, this is the land of your inheritance;

and the Father hath given it unto you.

3 Nephi 15:14

And not at any time hath the Father given me commandment

that I should tell it unto your brethren at Jerusalem.

3 Nephi 15:15

Neither at any time hath the Father given me commandment

that I should tell unto them concerning the other tribes of the house of Israel,

whom the Father hath led away out of the land.

3 Nephi 15:16

This much did the Father command me, that I should tell unto them:

3 Nephi 15:18

And now, because of stiffneckedness and unbelief

they understood not my word;

therefore I was commanded to say no more

of the Father concerning this thing unto them.

3 Nephi 15:19

But, verily, I say unto you that the Father hath commanded me,

and I tell it unto you,

that ye were separated from among them because of their iniquity;

therefore it is because of their iniquity that they know not of you.

3 Nephi 15:20

And verily, I say unto you again

that the other tribes hath the Father separated from them;

and it is because of their iniquity that they know not of them.

3 Nephi 15:24

But behold, ye have both heard my voice, and seen me;

and ye are my sheep,

and ye are numbered among those whom the Father hath given me.

3 Nephi 16:3

But I have received a commandment of the Father that I shall go unto them,

and that they shall hear my voice, and shall be numbered among my sheep,

that there may be one fold and one shepherd;

therefore I go to show myself unto them.

3 Nephi 16:4

And I command you that ye shall write these sayings after I am gone,

that if it so be that my people at Jerusalem,

they who have seen me and been with me in my ministry,

do not ask the Father in my name,

that they may receive a knowledge of you by the Holy Ghost,

and also of the other tribes whom they know not of,

that these sayings which ye shall write shall be kept

and shall be manifested unto the Gentiles,

that through the fulness of the Gentiles,

the remnant of their seed,

who shall be scattered forth upon the face of the earth because of their unbelief,

may be brought in, or may be brought to a knowledge of me, their Redeemer.

3 Nephi 16:5

And then will I gather them in from the four quarters of the earth;

and then will I fulfil the covenant

which the Father hath made unto all the people of the house of Israel.

3 Nephi 16:6

And blessed are the Gentiles, because of their belief in me,

in and of the Holy Ghost, which witnesses unto them of me and of the Father.

3 Nephi 16:7

Behold, because of their belief in me, saith the Father,

and because of the unbelief of you, O house of Israel,

in the latter day shall the truth come unto the Gentiles,

that the fulness of these things shall be made known unto them.

3 Nephi 16:8

But wo, saith the Father, unto the unbelieving of the Gentiles —

for notwithstanding they have come forth upon the face of this land,

and have scattered my people who are of the house of Israel;

and my people who are of the house of Israel

have been cast out from among them,

and have been trodden under feet by them;

3 Nephi 16:9

And because of the mercies of the Father unto the Gentiles,

and also the judgments of the Father

upon my people who are of the house of Israel,

verily, verily, I say unto you,

that after all this, and I have caused my people who are of the house of Israel

to be smitten, and to be afflicted, and to be slain,

and to be cast out from among them, and to become hated by them,

and to become a hiss and a byword among them —

3 Nephi 16:10

And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you:

At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel,

and shall reject the fulness of my gospel,

and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts

above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth,

and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs,

and all manner of hypocrisy,

and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms,

and of secret abominations;

and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel,

behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them.

3 Nephi 16:13

But if the Gentiles will repent and return unto me, saith the Father,

behold they shall be numbered among my people, O house of Israel.

3 Nephi 16:14

And I will not suffer my people, who are of the house of Israel,

to go through among them, and tread them down, saith the Father.

3 Nephi 16:16

Verily, verily, I say unto you,

thus hath the Father commanded me —

that I should give unto this people this land for their inheritance.