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Alma 31:5

And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.

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Alma 31:5

And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.

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4 Nephi 1 — And Surely There Could Not Be a Happier People — The Two Hundred Years of Zion, and the Long Unraveling
Alma 21 — Aaron in the City of Jerusalem — The Amalekites and Amulonites, the Synagogue Disputation, and the Prison of Middoni
Alma 32 — The Experiment Upon the Word — Faith as a Seed, and the Blessedness of the Poor Who Were Cast Out
Alma 33 — Then Cast About Your Eyes — Zenos, Zenock, and the Brazen Serpent, or How to Plant the Seed
Alma 34 — The Great and Last Sacrifice — Amulek on the Infinite Atonement, the Mediator, and the Time to Prepare to Meet God
Alma 35 — It Did Destroy Their Craft — The Fallout of the Word, the People of Ammon's Open Hand, and a Father Gathering His Sons
Alma 38 — Bridle All Your Passions — Alma's Charge to Steady Shiblon
Alma 43 — For Their Homes and Their Liberties — Moroni and the Ethic of Righteous Defense
Moroni 6 — Numbered Among the People of Christ — Baptism, and the Order of the Church
Mosiah 24 — Burdens Made Light — Amulon's Authority, the Forbidden Prayer, the Voice of the Lord in Their Affliction, the Deep Sleep upon the Lamanites, and the Valley Named Alma
2 Chronicles 17 — The King Who Sent Teachers — Jehoshaphat Seeks Early, His Heart Lifted Up Rightly, and the Book of the Law Carried to Every City
2 Kings 22 — I Have Found the Book — the Boy King Who Walked Straight, the Scroll Lost Inside the Temple, the Clothes Torn at the Reading, and Huldah's Oracle of the Tender Heart

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