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2 Nephi 9:39

O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember, to be carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life eternal.

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2 Nephi 9:39

O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember, to be carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life eternal.

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2 Nephi 7 — Isaiah 50 — The Bill of Divorcement, the Smitten Cheek, and the Face Set Like a Flint
2 Nephi 8 — Isaiah 51–52:2 — Look unto the Rock, the Cup of Trembling, Awake and Put on Strength
2 Nephi 10 — Reconcile Yourselves — Jacob's Second Day and the Land of Promise
2 Nephi 11 — My Soul Delighteth — Nephi's Preface to the Isaiah Block
2 Nephi 14 — Isaiah 4 — The Branch of the Lord and the Restored Pillar of Cloud and Fire
2 Nephi 15 — Isaiah 5 — The Song of the Vineyard, the Six Woes, the Ensign to the Nations
2 Nephi 17 — Isaiah 7 — The Sign of Immanuel and the Trembling House of David
2 Nephi 18 — Isaiah 8 — Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, the Sanctuary and the Stone of Stumbling, To the Law and to the Testimony
2 Nephi 19 — Isaiah 9 — The People That Walked in Darkness, the Child Born, the Four Throne-Names
2 Nephi 24 — Isaiah 14 — Israel Restored, the Taunt-Song over Babylon's King, Lucifer Fallen from Heaven
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
2 Nephi 26 — Nephi's Vision Continued — The Nephite Destruction, the Whisper out of the Dust, and the Universal Invitation
2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line
2 Nephi 30 — Gentile Covenant, Lamanite Delight, and the Millennial Earth — Nephi's Expansion of Isaiah 11
2 Nephi 31 — The Doctrine of Christ — Baptism, the Holy Ghost, and the Strait Way
3 Nephi 13 — Where Your Treasure Is — Secret Devotion and the Undivided Heart
Alma 11 — Every Joint to Its Proper Frame — The Nephite Money System, Zeezrom's Six Onties, and the Master Resurrection Discourse
Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count
Alma 28 — A Tremendous Battle, and Then a Tremendous Silence — The Great War, the Mourning of a Nation, and the Inequality of Man Because of Sin
Alma 34 — The Great and Last Sacrifice — Amulek on the Infinite Atonement, the Mediator, and the Time to Prepare to Meet God
Alma 40 — The Space Between — Alma on Death, Paradise, and the Resurrection
Alma 41 — Wickedness Never Was Happiness — Alma on the Restoration of the Soul
Alma 42 — Mercy Cannot Rob Justice — Alma on the Plan of Redemption
Jacob 2 — Tender Feelings Wounded — Jacob's Temple Sermon on Pride, Riches, and the David-Solomon Sin
Jacob 4 — Looking Beyond the Mark — Jacob's Meditation on Christ, Scripture, and the Jewish Stumble
Jacob 6 — Cleave Unto God — Jacob's Allegorical Exhortation and the Pleasing Bar of the Great Jehovah
Jacob 7 — Sherem the Anti-Christ — Jacob's Final Confrontation, the Sign Demanded, and the Wandering People
Moroni 8 — Little Children Are Alive in Christ — Mormon's Letter on the Mercy of God to the Innocent
Mosiah 2 — Benjamin's Tower Sermon — The Humble King, Service as Worship, the Unprofitable Servant, and the Wo of the Open Rebel
Mosiah 3 — The Angel's Message — Jesus Christ Named, Blood from Every Pore, and the Natural Man
Mosiah 4 — Fallen as Dead — The Cry for Mercy, Retaining a Remission, Are We Not All Beggars, and Watch Yourselves
Mosiah 5 — The Covenant Response — One Voice, No More Disposition to Evil, Spiritually Begotten Sons and Daughters, the Name in the Heart
Mosiah 14 — The Suffering Servant — Isaiah 53 in the Mouth of Abinadi, Read into the Face of King Noah
Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored
Mosiah 16 — The Light That Cannot Be Darkened — Abinadi's Closing Sermon on Carnal Death, the Light of Endless Life, and the Law That Points Beyond Itself
Mosiah 18 — Waters of Mormon — The Baptismal Covenant, the Mourning-with-Them-that-Mourn, and the First Nephite Church
Mosiah 27 — The Angel, the Three Days of Death-Like Sleep, and the Born-Again — Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah Converted, the Earth Trembling, the Soul Redeemed from the Gall of Bitterness
Doctrine and Covenants 19 — Endless Is My Name
Doctrine and Covenants 56 — The Rich and the Poor
1 Kings 18 — The God That Answereth by Fire — Obadiah's Hidden Hundred, the Question on Carmel, the Drenched Altar, and the Cloud Like a Man's Hand
2 Kings 3 — Ditches Before the Rain — Three Kings in a Waterless Wilderness, the Minstrel Who Made Room for the Word, Water Without a Storm, and the Fire on Moab's Wall
2 Kings 19 — The Letter Spread Before the LORD — Hezekiah's Sackcloth, the Prayer Between the Cherubims, the Remnant That Takes Root Downward, and the Angel in the Camp of Assyria
Ezra 3 — The Altar Before the House — Worship Rebuilt on the Old Base, and the Shout That Could Not Be Told from Weeping
Job 14 — If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again? — Job's Meditation on Human Frailty, the Tree That Sprouts Again, and a Question Left Open in the Dark
Job 19 — I Know That My Redeemer Liveth — The Estranged Man, the Iron Pen, and the Vindicator Who Stands at the Latter Day
Psalms 30 — Joy Cometh in the Morning — The Psalm of the Drawn-Up Soul, the God Whose Anger Is a Moment, and the Mourning Turned to Dancing

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read 2 Nephi 9:39 in context.