Surah Mormon: Selected Verses
- And now I, Mormon, make a record of the things which I have both seen and heard, and call it the Book of Mormon. 1:1
- The people were as numerous almost, as it were the sand of the sea. 1:7
- The Holy Ghost did not come upon any, because of their wickedness and unbelief. 1:14
- And I, being fifteen years of age and being somewhat of a sober mind, therefore I was visited of the Lord, and tasted and knew of the goodness of Jesus. 1:15
- I did endeavor to preach unto this people, but my mouth was shut, and I was forbidden that I should preach unto them; for behold they had wilfully rebelled against their God. 1:16
- The inhabitants thereof began to hide up their treasures in the earth; and they became slippery, because the Lord had cursed the land. 1:18
- The Nephites ... began to cry ... but ... their sorrowing was ... the sorrowing of the damned. 2:10
- They did not come unto Jesus with broken hearts and contrite spirits, but they did curse God, and wish to die. 2:10
- I saw thousands of them hewn down in open rebellion against their God, and heaped up as dung upon the face of the land. 2:15
- Then the voice of the Lord came to me and said, Vengeance is mine ..., they shall be cut off from the face of the earth. 3:14
- It is by the wicked that the wicked are punished. 4:5
- This people [the Lamanites] shall be scattered, and shall become a dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people ... because of their unbelief and idolatry. 5:11
- They [the Lamanites] were once a delightsome people ... but now, behold, they are led about by Satan. 5:17
- If ye believe that [the Bible] ye will believe this [the Bookd of Mormon] also. 7:9
- Great and marvelous is the destruction of my people, the Nephites. 8:7
- Whoso receiveth this record, and shall not condemn it because of the imperfections which are in it. 8:12
- If there be faults [in Moroni's record] they be the faults of a man. 8:17
- He that condemneth [the plates] ... shall be in danger of hell fire. 8:17
- He that shall breathe out wrath and strifes against the work of the Lord ... the same is in danger to be hewn down and cast into the fire. 8:21
- The blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret combinations and the works of darkness. 8:27
- Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing. 8:35
- Your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted. 8:36
- Why do ye build up your secret abominations? Mormon 8:40. 8:40
- The sword of vengeance hangeth over you; and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you. 8:41
- The same that judgeth rashly shall be judged rashly again ... he that smiteth shall be smitten again, of the Lord. 8:197
- Ye shall be brought to see your nakedness before God, and ... and the holiness of Jesus Christ ... will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon you. 9:5
- Ye unbelieving, turn ye unto the Lord ... that perhaps ye may be found spotless, pure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. 9:6
- esus Christ, even the Father and the Son. 9:12
- He that is filthy shall be filthy still ... and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still. 9:14
- The reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief. 9:20
- He that believeth not shall be damned. 9:23
- These signs shall follow them that believe . 9:24
- Doubt not, but be believing. 9:27
- We have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian. 9:32
- If our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew. 9:33
- If we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record. 9:33
- These things are written that we may rid our garments of the blood of our brethren, who have dwindled in unbelief. 9:35