Every scripture reflection and discipleship note David has published on LDS Daily Path. Showing older entries, page 8.
Everybody quotes verse 26 on the voice of the people. Verses 28 and 29, on what happens when a judge gets it wrong, are the part Mosiah had to design.
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Paul starts a sentence in Ephesians 3:1, drops it for twelve verses, and picks it back up at verse 14. What he puts in the gap is the chapter.
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Most of us stop at verse 10. The second half of Ephesians 2 is about a wall, two groups of people, and a building that's still going up.
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Leviticus 5 asks a man to confess, bring an offering that fits his means and repay what he broke with a fifth added. Verse 17 is the part I still argue with.
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I carried the wrong number into D&C 94 for years. Two buildings, a lot each, and a verse 16 that tells them both to hold.
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Four sons turn down a throne, and the king spends the rest of Mosiah 28 deciding who gets the records. Verse 10 is the hinge.
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Verse 13 swaps "us" for "ye," and I read past it for years. It changes who Paul means when he says we were chosen before the foundation of the world.
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Paul says bear one another's burdens in verse 2 and every man bears his own in verse 5. I think the verses between them explain how both can be true.
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In Leviticus 4 the ruler and the common man bring their offering once the sin "come to his knowledge." I read it on a cabin porch and stayed on that phrase.
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D&C 93 defines truth and says what God's glory is, then spends ten verses on four men's homes. I think the second half is the reason for the first.
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