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Alma 29:4

I ought not to harrow up in my desires the firm decree of a just God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire, whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men, yea, decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction.

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Alma 29:4

I ought not to harrow up in my desires the firm decree of a just God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire, whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men, yea, decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction.

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2 Nephi 29 — A Bible! A Bible! — The Marvelous Work, the Two Records, and the Lord Speaks to All Nations
2 Nephi 33 — Nephi's Farewell — The Power of the Words, the Face-to-Face Meeting, the Pleasing Bar
Alma 26 — How Many Thousands of Our Brethren Has He Loosed From the Pains of Hell — Ammon's Hymn of Rejoicing, and the Boast That Is Not a Boast
Alma 30 — Korihor — The Anatomy of Unbelief, and the Sign That Was Not Mercy
Alma 32 — The Experiment Upon the Word — Faith as a Seed, and the Blessedness of the Poor Who Were Cast Out
Alma 36 — I Could Remember My Pains No More — Alma's Conversion to Helaman, and the Chiasm That Turns on the Name of Christ
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Mormon 3 — Vengeance Is Mine — The Nephites' Boast, Mormon's Refusal, and the Idle Witness Who Writes to Us
Doctrine and Covenants 15 — That Which Will Be of the Most Worth
Doctrine and Covenants 16 — The Same Word to a Second Brother
1 Kings 22 — The Throne Above the Thrones — Four Hundred Prophets, One Micaiah, the Lying Spirit, and the Arrow That Kept the Word
2 Kings 17 — Removed Out of His Sight — Israel's Last King, the Three Years at Samaria's Gates, the Sermon That Explains a Kingdom's Fall, and the People Who Feared the LORD and Served Their Own Gods
Esther 9 — The Day That Was Turned — The Great Reversal, the Hand Held Back from the Spoil, and the Feast That Remembers a God Who Is Never Named
Ezra 6 — The House Finished — A Scroll Found in the Archive, a King Who Funds His Enemies' Work, and a Passover of Joy
Nehemiah 8 — The Book Opened in the Sight of All the People — Ezra Reads the Law, the Sense Is Given, and Grief Turns to the Joy of the LORD

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