Unit 98

behold

46 occurrences in 38 verses

Mormon 8:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 33, 34, 35, 37, 41,

Mormon 9:2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 26, 30, 32, 33, 36

Mormon 8:1

behold I, Moroni, do finish the record of my father, Mormon.

behold, I have but few things to write,

which things I have been commanded by my father.

Mormon 8:2

And now it came to pass that after the great and tremendous battle at Cumorah,

behold, the Nephites who had escaped into the country southward

were hunted by the Lamanites, until they were all destroyed.

Mormon 8:3

And my father also was killed by them,

and I even remain alone

to write the sad tale of the destruction of my people.

But behold, they are gone,

and I fulfil the commandment of my father.

And whether they will slay me, I know not.

Mormon 8:5

behold, my father hath made this record,

and he hath written the intent thereof.

And behold, I would write it also

if I had room upon the plates,

but I have not;

and ore I have none,

for I am alone.

My father hath been slain in battle,

and all my kinsfolk,

and I have not friends nor whither to go;

and how long the Lord will suffer that I may live I know not.

Mormon 8:6

behold, four hundred years have passed away

since the coming of our Lord and Savior.

Mormon 8:7

And behold, the Lamanites have hunted my people, the Nephites, down

from city to city and from place to place,

even until they are no more;

and great has been their fall;

yea, great and marvelous is the destruction of my people, the Nephites.

Mormon 8:8

And behold, it is the hand of the Lord which hath done it.

And behold also, the Lamanites are at war one with another;

and the whole face of this land is one continual round of murder and bloodshed;

and no one knoweth the end of the war.

Mormon 8:9

And now, behold, I say no more concerning them,

for there are none save it be the Lamanites and robbers

that do exist upon the face of the land.

Mormon 8:11

But behold, my father and I have seen them,

and they have ministered unto us.

Mormon 8:12

And whoso receiveth this record, and shall not condemn it

because of the imperfections which are in it,

the same shall know of greater things than these.

behold, I am Moroni;

and were it possible,

I would make all things known unto you.

Mormon 8:13

behold, I make an end of speaking concerning this people.

I am the son of Mormon,

and my father was a descendant of Nephi.

Mormon 8:17

And if there be faults

they be the faults of a man.

But behold, we know no fault;

nevertheless God knoweth all things;

therefore, he that condemneth,

let him be aware lest he shall be in danger of hell fire.

Mormon 8:19

For behold, the same that judgeth rashly shall be judged rashly again;

for according to his works shall his wages be;

therefore, he that smiteth shall be smitten again, of the Lord.

Mormon 8:20

behold what the scripture says —

man shall not smite, neither shall he judge;

for judgment is mine, saith the Lord,

and vengeance is mine also, and I will repay.

Mormon 8:23

Search the prophecies of Isaiah.

behold, I cannot write them.

Yea, behold I say unto you,

that those saints who have gone before me,

who have possessed this land,

shall cry, yea, even from the dust will they cry unto the Lord;

and as the Lord liveth

he will remember the covenant which he hath made with them.

Mormon 8:25

And behold, their prayers were also in behalf of him

that the Lord should suffer to bring these things forth.

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 8:34

behold, the Lord hath shown unto me great and marvelous things

concerning that which must shortly come,

at that day when these things shall come forth among you.

Mormon 8:35

behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present,

and yet ye are not.

But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me,

and I know your doing.

Mormon 8:37

For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel,

and the adorning of your churches,

more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.

Mormon 8:41

behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you;

and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you,

for he will not suffer their cries any longer.

Mormon 9:2

behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation —

behold, when the Lord shall come,

yea, even that great day

when the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll,

and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,

yea, in that great day when ye shall be brought

to stand before the Lamb of God —

then will ye say that there is no God?

Mormon 9:3

Then will ye longer deny the Christ,

or can ye behold the Lamb of God?

Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him

under a consciousness of your guilt?

Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being,

when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt

that ye have ever abused his laws?

Mormon 9:4

behold, I say unto you

that ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and just God,

under a consciousness of your filthiness before him,

than ye would to dwell with the damned souls in hell.

Mormon 9:5

For behold, when ye shall be brought to see your nakedness before God,

and also the glory of God, and the holiness of Jesus Christ,

it will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon you.

Mormon 9:8

behold I say unto you,

he that denieth these things knoweth not the gospel of Christ;

yea, he has not read the scriptures;

if so, he does not understand them.

Mormon 9:11

But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles,

even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

and it is that same God

who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are.

Mormon 9:12

behold, he created Adam,

and by Adam came the fall of man.

And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ,

even the Father and the Son;

and because of Jesus Christ came the redemption of man.

Mormon 9:15

And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves

a god who can do no miracles,

I would ask of you,

have all these things passed, of which I have spoken?

Has the end come yet?

behold I say unto you, Nay;

and God has not ceased to be a God of miracles.

Mormon 9:16

behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in our eyes?

Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous works of God?

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 9:21

behold, I say unto you

that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing,

whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ

it shall be granted him;

and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth.

Mormon 9:22

For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

unto his disciples who should tarry,

yea, and also to all his disciples,

in the hearing of the multitude:

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature;

Mormon 9:26

And now, behold, who can stand against the works of the Lord?

Who can deny his sayings?

Who will rise up against the almighty power of the Lord?

Who will despise the works of the Lord?

Who will despise the children of Christ?

behold, all ye who are despisers of the works of the Lord,

for ye shall wonder and perish.

Mormon 9:30

behold, I speak unto you as though I spake from the dead;

for I know that ye shall have my words.

Mormon 9:32

And now, behold, we have written this record

according to our knowledge,

in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian,

being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech.

Mormon 9:33

And if our plates had been sufficiently large

we should have written in Hebrew;

but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also;

and if we could have written in Hebrew,

behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record.

Mormon 9:36

And behold, these things which we have desired concerning our brethren,

yea, even their restoration to the knowledge of Christ,

are according to the prayers of all the saints who have dwelt in the land.