The Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiSmith, Joseph, Jr.
Religion
The Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Sacred books; Latter Day Saint churches -- Sacred books
4:21 And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent
for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you
whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall
receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have
one to another.
4:22 And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition to you for
your substance that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just
will be your condemnation for withholding your substance, which doth
not belong to you but to God, to whom also your life belongeth; and yet
ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing which thou hast done.
4:23 I say unto you, wo be unto that man, for his substance shall
perish with him; and now, I say these things unto those who are rich as
pertaining to the things of this world.
4:24 And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and yet have
sufficient, that ye remain from day to day; I mean all you who deny the
beggar, because ye have not; I would that ye say in your hearts that: I
give not because I have not, but if I had I would give.
4:25 And now, if ye say this in your hearts ye remain guiltless,
otherwise ye are condemned; and your condemnation is just for ye covet
that which ye have not received.
4:26 And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto
you—that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from
day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God—I would that ye
should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to
that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked,
visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually
and temporally, according to their wants.
4:27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it
is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And
again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he
might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.
4:28 And I would that ye should remember, that whosoever among you
borroweth of his neighbor should return the thing that he borroweth,
according as he doth agree, or else thou shalt commit sin; and perhaps
thou shalt cause thy neighbor to commit sin also.
4:29 And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may
commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I
cannot number them.
4:30 But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves,
and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the
commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard
concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye
must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not.
Mosiah Chapter 5
5:1 And now, it came to pass that when king Benjamin had thus spoken to
his people, he sent among them, desiring to know of his people if they
believed the words which he had spoken unto them.
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