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Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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This chapter in the commentary 1 Nephi 3 — I Will Go and Do — Casting Lots, Failed Strategies, and the Sacred Archive 1 Nephi 6 — The Editorial Manifesto and the Curated Word 1 Nephi 9 — The Two Plates and the Wise Purpose I Know Not 1 Nephi 10 — The Coming Messiah, the Olive Tree in Seed, and the Doctrine of Personal Revelation 1 Nephi 19 — Zenock, Neum, Zenos, and the Hermeneutic of 'Liken' 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 11 — My Soul Delighteth — Nephi's Preface to the Isaiah Block 2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do Alma 8 — The Angel Returns — Alma Cast Out of Ammonihah and Sent Back with a Second Witness Alma 16 — The Desolation of Nehors — Ammonihah Destroyed in a Day, the Zoram Rescue at Sidon, and the Many Things That Looked Forth for the Coming of Christ Alma 19 — The Light of the Everlasting Life Was Lit Up in His Soul — The Queen's Greater Faith, Abish the Long-Hidden Witness, and the Conversion of Lamoni's Household 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 45 — Taken Up, Even as Moses — Alma's Last Prophecy and Helaman's Charge Enos 1 — Enos's Wrestle — The Hunt That Became a Prayer, Intercession for Brethren and Enemies, the Promise of Preservation Ether 3 — He Could Not Be Kept From Within the Veil — The Sixteen Stones, the Finger of the Lord, and the Unveiling of Christ Ether 12 — My Grace Is Sufficient — Moroni on Faith, and the Weak Things Made Strong Ether 13 — A New Jerusalem Upon This Land — Ether's Prophecy of the Holy City, and the War That Would Not End Helaman 8 — Look and Live — The Cloud of Witnesses and the Murdered Judge 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 7 — Sherem the Anti-Christ — Jacob's Final Confrontation, the Sign Demanded, and the Wandering People Jarom 1 — Jarom — A Short Book on Purpose: Keeping the Law of Moses While Looking Forward to Christ, and the Prophets Who Kept a Hard People Alive Moroni 7 — Charity Is the Pure Love of Christ — Mormon's Sermon on Faith, Hope, and Charity Moroni 10 — Come unto Christ, and Be Perfected in Him — Moroni's Promise, and the Last Words of the Book of Mormon Mosiah 4 — Fallen as Dead — The Cry for Mercy, Retaining a Remission, Are We Not All Beggars, and Watch Yourselves Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin Mosiah 9 — Zeniff's Confession — Over-Zealous to Inherit, Snared by a Cunning King, Delivered by the God Who Hears Mosiah 10 — The Tradition of the Fathers — A Wrong That Is Taught, A Hatred That Is Inherited, A Deliverance That Comes by Remembrance 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 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 Mosiah 23 — Alma's People in Helam — The Refused Kingship, the Liberty Doctrine, the Land Beautiful, the Amulonites Discovered, and the Lord Chasteneth Those Whom He Loveth Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined Omni 1 — Omni — Five Voices on a Closing Plate, Mosiah's Flight to Zarahemla, the Mulekites Found, and the Stone of Coriantumr Words of Mormon 1 — Words of Mormon — The Editor's Seam, the Wise Purpose, and the Providence That Reaches Across Centuries Doctrine and Covenants 8 — In Your Mind and in Your Heart Doctrine and Covenants 45 — Stand in Holy Places Doctrine and Covenants 103 — The Redemption of Zion by Power Doctrine and Covenants 128 — They Without Us Cannot Be Made Perfect 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 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 21 — The Wiped Dish and the Untold Prayer — Manasseh Unbuilds His Father's Reformation, Fills Jerusalem with Innocent Blood, Hears the Sentence That Dooms the Kingdom, and Finds a Mercy the Book of Kings Never Mentions Genesis 1 — The Beginning That Explains Everything — God Creates the Heaven and the Earth, the Spirit Broods on the Deep, the Divine Council Says Let Us, and Man Is Made in the Image of God Genesis 4 — Two Brothers and One Altar — the First Offering Accepted and Refused, Sin Crouching at the Door, the Blood That Cries from the Ground, and the Seed Appointed Instead of Abel Genesis 5 — The Book of the Generations of Adam — the Likeness Handed Down, the Drumbeat of the Dying, the One Who Walked and Was Not, and the Son Named for Comfort Job 38 — Out of the Whirlwind — The LORD Answers Job Not with a Why but with a Who Abraham 4 — The Gods Organized — the Council Creation, and 'Watched Until They Were Obeyed' Moses 1 — The Visions of Moses — Endless, the Only Begotten, the Confrontation with Satan, and the Work and the Glory Moses 5 — The Similitude of the Sacrifice — Adam's Altar, Eve's Joy, and the First Master Mahan Moses 7 — How Is It That Thou Canst Weep? — Enoch, Zion, and the God Who Mourns Moses 8 — Sons of God, Daughters of Men, and the Grief Before the Flood — Methuselah, Noah, and the End of an Age Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. 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