Surah Mormon: Selected Verses

1. 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
2. The people were as numerous almost, as it were the sand of the sea.   1:7
3. The Holy Ghost did not come upon any, because of their wickedness and unbelief.   1:14
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. The Nephites ... began to cry ... but ... their sorrowing was ... the sorrowing of the damned.   2:10
8. They did not come unto Jesus with broken hearts and contrite spirits, but they did curse God, and wish to die.   2:10
9. 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
10. 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
11. It is by the wicked that the wicked are punished.   4:5
12. 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
13. They [the Lamanites] were once a delightsome people ... but now, behold, they are led about by Satan.   5:17
14. If ye believe that [the Bible] ye will believe this [the Bookd of Mormon] also.   7:9
15. Great and marvelous is the destruction of my people, the Nephites.   8:7
16. Whoso receiveth this record, and shall not condemn it because of the imperfections which are in it.   8:12
17. If there be faults [in Moroni's record] they be the faults of a man.   8:17
18. He that condemneth [the plates] ... shall be in danger of hell fire.   8:17
19. 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
20. The blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret combinations and the works of darkness.   8:27
21. Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing.   8:35
22. Your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted.   8:36
23. Why do ye build up your secret abominations? Mormon 8:40.   8:40
24. The sword of vengeance hangeth over you; and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you.   8:41
25. The same that judgeth rashly shall be judged rashly again ... he that smiteth shall be smitten again, of the Lord.   8:197
26. 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
27. 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
28. esus Christ, even the Father and the Son.   9:12
29. He that is filthy shall be filthy still ... and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still.   9:14
30. The reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief.   9:20
31. He that believeth not shall be damned.   9:23
32. These signs shall follow them that believe .   9:24
33. Doubt not, but be believing.   9:27
34. We have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian.   9:32
35. If our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew.   9:33
36. If we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record.   9:33
37. These things are written that we may rid our garments of the blood of our brethren, who have dwindled in unbelief.   9:35