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Matthew 16:17

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

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Matthew 16:17

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

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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 33 — Nephi's Farewell — The Power of the Words, the Face-to-Face Meeting, the Pleasing Bar
Alma 30 — Korihor — The Anatomy of Unbelief, and the Sign That Was Not Mercy
Alma 41 — Wickedness Never Was Happiness — Alma on the Restoration of the Soul
Helaman 10 — Whatsoever Ye Shall Seal — The Power of Heaven Given to a Trusted Man
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Jacob 7 — Sherem the Anti-Christ — Jacob's Final Confrontation, the Sign Demanded, and the Wandering People
Mosiah 5 — The Covenant Response — One Voice, No More Disposition to Evil, Spiritually Begotten Sons and Daughters, the Name in the Heart
Mosiah 8 — The Twenty-Four Plates and the Doctrine of the Seer — Interpreters, Urim and Thummim, and a Gift Greater Than Prophecy
Mosiah 12 — Abinadi Returns in Disguise — Bound, Tried, and Questioned with Isaiah's Good Tidings
Mosiah 13 — Abinadi's Face Shines — The Decalogue Finished, the Law as Schoolmaster, and the God Himself Who Shall Come Down
Mosiah 26 — The Rising Generation, Alma's Intercession, and the Doctrine of 'As Often As'
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
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
Doctrine and Covenants 6 — Did I Not Speak Peace to Your Mind?
Doctrine and Covenants 10 — My Wisdom Is Greater Than the Cunning of the Devil
Doctrine and Covenants 15 — That Which Will Be of the Most Worth
Doctrine and Covenants 16 — The Same Word to a Second Brother
Doctrine and Covenants 17 — That You May Have a View
Doctrine and Covenants 18 — The Worth of Souls
Doctrine and Covenants 21 — As If From Mine Own Mouth
Doctrine and Covenants 23 — Under No Condemnation
Doctrine and Covenants 33 — Open Your Mouths
Doctrine and Covenants 53 — Forsake the World
Doctrine and Covenants 65 — The Stone Cut Without Hands
Doctrine and Covenants 90 — The Keys of the Kingdom
Doctrine and Covenants 127 — Let There Be a Recorder
Doctrine and Covenants 128 — They Without Us Cannot Be Made Perfect
Doctrine and Covenants 132 — The New and Everlasting Covenant
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 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
2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon
Esther 4 — For Such a Time as This — Sackcloth at the Gate, the Charge That Cannot Be Refused, and the Queen Who Chose to Perish
Psalms 2 — Thou Art My Son — The Raging Nations, the Laughing Heaven, the Decree on Zion's Hill, and the King Every Knee Will Kiss

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