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Doctrine and Covenants 1:16

They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.

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They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.

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1 Nephi 10 — The Coming Messiah, the Olive Tree in Seed, and the Doctrine of Personal Revelation
1 Nephi 18 — The Ship, the Bound Prophet, and the Sea That Obeys the Compass
1 Nephi 22 — Nephi's Exposition — The Scattering, the Gentile Nursing, and the Mighty One of Israel
2 Nephi 6 — Jacob Opens the Temple Sermon — Isaiah 49 Re-Read for the New World
2 Nephi 12 — Isaiah 2 — The Mountain of the Lord's House and the Day of the Lord
2 Nephi 15 — Isaiah 5 — The Song of the Vineyard, the Six Woes, the Ensign to the Nations
2 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 10 — The Assyrian as the Lord's Rod, the Remnant Returns, the Cedars Cut Down
2 Nephi 22 — Isaiah 12 — The Song of Salvation, the Wells of Yeshua, and Zion's Inhabitant Shouting
2 Nephi 23 — Isaiah 13 — The Burden of Babylon, the Day of the Lord, the Sanctified Ones
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 27 — Isaiah 29 Expanded — The Sealed Book, the Learned Man, the Three Witnesses, the Marvelous Work
2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line
2 Nephi 29 — A Bible! A Bible! — The Marvelous Work, the Two Records, and the Lord Speaks to All Nations
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
2 Nephi 32 — Feast Upon the Words of Christ — Angels, the Holy Ghost, and the Doctrine of Pray Always
2 Nephi 33 — Nephi's Farewell — The Power of the Words, the Face-to-Face Meeting, the Pleasing Bar
Alma 18 — Is It a Man? — Lamoni's Great-Spirit Question, Ammon's Pedagogical Bridge from Creation to Christ, and the King Overcome unto Falling-as-Dead
Alma 21 — Aaron in the City of Jerusalem — The Amalekites and Amulonites, the Synagogue Disputation, and the Prison of Middoni
Alma 25 — Thus the Words of Abinadi Were Brought to Pass — The Priests of Noah's Seed, Death by Fire, and the Converts Who Came in From the Wilderness
Ether 7 — Brought Into Captivity — The Kingdom Divided, and the Brother of Jared's Warning Begins to Come True
Ether 11 — The Prophets Mourned and Withdrew — The Last Slide, and a People Past Hearing
Ether 12 — My Grace Is Sufficient — Moroni on Faith, and the Weak Things Made Strong
Ether 15 — Save It Were Coriantumr and Shiz — The End of a Nation, and the Last Words of Ether
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Jacob 4 — Looking Beyond the Mark — Jacob's Meditation on Christ, Scripture, and the Jewish Stumble
Jacob 5 — The Allegory of the Olive Tree — Zenos on the Lord's Vineyard, the Wild Branches, and the Final Harvest
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
Mormon 1 — A Sober Child, Quick to Observe — Mormon's Boyhood, and the Withdrawal of the Spirit from a People
Mormon 2 — The Sorrowing of the Damned — Mormon Made a Captain at Sixteen, and a Grief That Was Not Repentance
Mormon 8 — I Even Remain Alone — Moroni Takes Up the Record, and Sees Our Day
Mosiah 1 — Benjamin's Father-Discourse — Language, Records, the Mysteries, and the Name That Shall Never Be Blotted Out
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 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin
Mosiah 11 — King Noah and the First Cry of Abinadi — A King Whose Heart Is Set on Riches, a Prophet Who Comes Among the People to Say Repent or Be Brought Into Bondage
Mosiah 12 — Abinadi Returns in Disguise — Bound, Tried, and Questioned with Isaiah's Good Tidings
Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored
Mosiah 17 — Abinadi Sealed by Fire — Alma Believes, the Word Is Hidden Away, the Prophet Dies as the Type He Named Himself to Be
Mosiah 19 — Noah Burned With Fire — Abinadi's Prophecy Fulfilled, the Colony's Tribute Begins, and the Priests Vanish into the Wilderness
Omni 1 — Omni — Five Voices on a Closing Plate, Mosiah's Flight to Zarahemla, the Mulekites Found, and the Stone of Coriantumr
Doctrine and Covenants 3 — The Works of God Cannot Be Frustrated
Doctrine and Covenants 8 — In Your Mind and in Your Heart
Doctrine and Covenants 21 — As If From Mine Own Mouth
Doctrine and Covenants 22 — A New and Everlasting Covenant
Doctrine and Covenants 43 — Come In at the Gate
Doctrine and Covenants 67 — If Ye Cannot Make One Like Unto It
Doctrine and Covenants 68 — It Shall Be Scripture
Doctrine and Covenants 82 — I, the Lord, Am Bound
Doctrine and Covenants 87 — The Prophecy on War
Doctrine and Covenants 112 — Be Thou Humble
Doctrine and Covenants 115 — The Name of the Church
Doctrine and Covenants 118 — Next Spring from the Temple
Doctrine and Covenants 133 — Go Ye Out from Babylon
Official Declaration 2 — The Revelation on the Priesthood
1 Kings 22 — The Throne Above the Thrones — Four Hundred Prophets, One Micaiah, the Lying Spirit, and the Arrow That Kept the Word
2 Chronicles 19 — Good Things Found in Thee — The Rebuke That Names the Good, and the King Who Turned Correction into Reform
2 Kings 2 — The Chariot of Fire and the Fallen Mantle — Elijah's Last Walk, the Double Portion, the Whirlwind into Heaven, and the Salt in a New Cruse
2 Kings 16 — The Copied Altar — Ahaz Gives His Son to the Fire, Buys an Empire with the Temple's Treasure, Orders the Pattern of Damascus from a Compliant Priest, and Refuses the Sign of Immanuel
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
2 Kings 24 — According to the Word of the LORD — Nebuchadnezzar Comes Up, Jehoiachin Opens the Gates, Ten Thousand Go to Babylon, and a King Named Righteousness Takes a Tilting Throne
Esther 8 — The Word That May No Man Reverse — Haman's House, the Signet on Mordecai's Hand, and a Second Decree Answering the First
Ezra 1 — The Word Fulfilled — Cyrus's Decree, the Stirred Spirit, the Freewill Return, and the Vessels Come Home
Ezra 5 — The Word That Restarts the Work — Two Prophets, a Governor's Inquiry, and the Eye That Would Not Let Them Cease
Psalms 20 — Some Trust in Chariots — A Nation Prays for Its King on the Day of Battle
Psalms 25 — Shew Me Thy Ways — An Alphabet of Trust, the Prayer to Be Taught, and the Secret of the LORD
Psalms 33 — The Word That Made the Heavens — A New Song for the Creator, the Lord of the Nations, and the Eye That Watches Over Those Who Hope
Moses 2 — I, God, Created — the Restored Creation, the Only Begotten as Agent, and the Seven Days
Moses 6 — The Book of Remembrance, the Slow of Speech, and the Gospel Preached to Adam

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Doctrine and Covenants 1:16 in context.