Scripture Thoughts

This last part, "according to their danger." God will direct us "according to our danger," or according to where we should be, or away from where we shouldn't be.

Alma 48:15 …or in other words, if they were faithful in keeping the commandments of God that he would prosper them in the land; yea, warn them to flee, or to prepare for war, according to their danger; #p15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur…

Without this question, would Christ have made this statement? Even if He hadn’t have said it, it would still be true, but it was Thomas’s question that spurred the answer we now all get to read. Questions are okay. Questions are important for revelation.

John 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? The next verse is the one everyone knows about Christ being the way, the truth, and the life. What may be overlooked is Thomas’s question that preceded it #p5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur…

John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. The inverse of this must also be true - if ye love not one another, ye are not my disciples. To be counted as a disciple of Christ, we must love each other #p35" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur…

17 For he will fulfil all his promises which he shall make unto you, for he has fulfilled his promises which he has made unto our fathers. Alma 37:17 Since God delivered them and He doesn’t change, why would He not deliver us?? #p17" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur…

Alma 56:46 “then let us go forth; we would not slay our brethren if they would let us alone” Even though they were in the middle of a war, they still considered the Lamanites their brothers

The root represents the covenant that God makes with his people, the fruit. The covenant is a means to an end, not the end itself. God’s children returning to Him is what He cares about. The covenant serves that end.

1/ Jacob 5:8 “and it mattereth not that if it so be that the root of this tree will perish, I may preserve the fruit thereof unto myself.”

1 Nephi 11:1 So many big things happen in the scriptures after someone is pondering. We would do well to do the same thing, especially today when there is so much information and entertainment to keep us busy

1 Nephi 1:4 Lehi lived in Jerusalem “all his days.” It could not have been easy for him to just up and leave like that. Sure, he followed God, but it still took faith to do it

Moroni 9:3 Of all things, Satan stirs up the people to anger. Not adultery, not robbery, not murder. But anger. He could've stirred them up to hatred and they would've ended up killing each other anyway, but he just stirred them up to anger and let the rest take care of itself.