Unit 98

why

9 occurrences in 6 verses

Mormon 8:33, 38, 39, 40,

Mormon 9:19, 20

Mormon 8:33

O ye wicked and perverse and stiffnecked people,

why have ye built up churches unto yourselves to get gain?

why have ye transfigured the holy word of God,

that ye might bring damnation upon your souls?

Behold, look ye unto the revelations of God;

for behold, the time cometh at that day

when all these things must be fulfilled.

Mormon 8:38

O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites,

ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker,

why have ye polluted the holy church of God?

why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ?

why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness

than that misery which never dies —

because of the praise of the world?

Mormon 8:39

why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life,

and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked,

and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?

Mormon 8:40

Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain,

and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord,

and also orphans to mourn before the Lord,

and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands

to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?

Mormon 9:19

And if there were miracles wrought

then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles

and yet be an unchangeable Being?

And behold, I say unto you

he changeth not;

if so he would cease to be God;

and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.

Mormon 9:20

And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men

is because that they dwindle in unbelief,

and depart from the right way,

and know not the God in whom they should trust.