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Malachi 3:14
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
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This chapter in the commentary 2 Nephi 6 — Jacob Opens the Temple Sermon — Isaiah 49 Re-Read for the New World 2 Nephi 13 — Isaiah 3 — The Stay and the Staff Removed, and the Daughters of Zion 2 Nephi 14 — Isaiah 4 — The Branch of the Lord and the Restored Pillar of Cloud and Fire 2 Nephi 15 — Isaiah 5 — The Song of the Vineyard, the Six Woes, the Ensign to the Nations 2 Nephi 17 — Isaiah 7 — The Sign of Immanuel and the Trembling House of David 2 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 10 — The Assyrian as the Lord's Rod, the Remnant Returns, the Cedars Cut Down 2 Nephi 23 — Isaiah 13 — The Burden of Babylon, the Day of the Lord, the Sanctified Ones 2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do 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 3 Nephi 24 — Like a Refiner's Fire — The Messenger of the Covenant and the Windows of Heaven 4 Nephi 1 — And Surely There Could Not Be a Happier People — The Two Hundred Years of Zion, and the Long Unraveling Alma 12 — The Plan of Redemption Made Known — Mysteries According to Heed and Diligence, the Fall, and the Second Death Alma 29 — O That I Were an Angel — A Psalm of Holy Desire and Holier Restraint Alma 63 — The Record Handed On — Moroni Dies, Hagoth Sails, and the Book of Alma Closes Enos 1 — Enos's Wrestle — The Hunt That Became a Prayer, Intercession for Brethren and Enemies, the Promise of Preservation Helaman 7 — The Lament on the Tower — Nephi Pours Out His Soul Jacob 2 — Tender Feelings Wounded — Jacob's Temple Sermon on Pride, Riches, and the David-Solomon Sin Jacob 4 — Looking Beyond the Mark — Jacob's Meditation on Christ, Scripture, and the Jewish Stumble 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 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 Mormon 8 — I Even Remain Alone — Moroni Takes Up the Record, and Sees Our Day Mormon 9 — A God of Miracles — Moroni to the Unbeliever, and the Unchanging Christ Moroni 6 — Numbered Among the People of Christ — Baptism, and the Order of the Church Moroni 8 — Little Children Are Alive in Christ — Mormon's Letter on the Mercy of God to the Innocent Moroni 10 — Come unto Christ, and Be Perfected in Him — Moroni's Promise, and the Last Words of the Book of Mormon 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 5 — The Covenant Response — One Voice, No More Disposition to Evil, Spiritually Begotten Sons and Daughters, the Name in the Heart Mosiah 6 — The Names Recorded — Priests Appointed, Mosiah Anointed, Benjamin Departed, and Three Years of Peace Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin Mosiah 14 — The Suffering Servant — Isaiah 53 in the Mouth of Abinadi, Read into the Face of King Noah Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored Mosiah 18 — Waters of Mormon — The Baptismal Covenant, the Mourning-with-Them-that-Mourn, and the First Nephite Church Mosiah 21 — Limhi's Bondage Deepens — Three Defeats, Humbled to the Dust, the Lord Slow to Hear, and Many Desire Baptism but None Have Authority 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 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 Mosiah 26 — The Rising Generation, Alma's Intercession, and the Doctrine of 'As Often As' 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 Words of Mormon 1 — Words of Mormon — The Editor's Seam, the Wise Purpose, and the Providence That Reaches Across Centuries Doctrine and Covenants 1 — The Lord's Preface to His Own Book Doctrine and Covenants 13 — Upon You My Fellow Servants — The Priesthood of Aaron Doctrine and Covenants 35 — Even as John, to Prepare the Way Doctrine and Covenants 36 — The Peaceable Things of the Kingdom Doctrine and Covenants 47 — Keep a Regular History Doctrine and Covenants 62 — Recorded in Heaven Doctrine and Covenants 69 — A Companion for the Journey Doctrine and Covenants 85 — The Book of the Law of God Doctrine and Covenants 104 — Every Man His Stewardship Doctrine and Covenants 119 — The Law of Tithing Doctrine and Covenants 128 — They Without Us Cannot Be Made Perfect Doctrine and Covenants 133 — Go Ye Out from Babylon 1 Kings 17 — The Word That Shuts Heaven — Elijah Appears, the Ravens of Cherith, the Widow's Last Meal, and the Soul That Came Back 2 Chronicles 15 — The God Who Is Found — Azariah's Word to Asa, the Covenant to Seek with the Whole Heart, and the Courage to Reform One's Own House 2 Chronicles 30 — The Passover of the Gathered and the Unclean — Hezekiah's Letters to the Remnant, the Mockers and the Humbled, and the Prayer That Weighed the Heart Above the Rite 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 4 — Borrow Not a Few — The Oil That Stopped at the Last Vessel, the Great Woman of Shunem, Death in the Pot, and the Bread That Was Left Over 2 Kings 7 — The Noise That Emptied a Camp — Flour for a Shekel, Windows in Heaven, Four Lepers at Twilight, and the Day of Good Tidings 2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon 2 Kings 23 — The Book That Remade a King — Josiah's Covenant at the Pillar, the Fire Through Every High Place, the Passover No Generation Had Seen, and the Chariot That Came Home from Megiddo Esther 2 — The Orphan Who Found Favor — A Hidden Name, a Recorded Deed, and the Unseen Hand That Set the Crown Esther 6 — The Night the King Could Not Sleep — A Fled Slumber, a Scroll Read at the Right Hour, and the Providence That Signs Its Work by Refusing to Sign It Job 21 — The Prosperity of the Wicked — Job Dismantles the Retribution Machine Job 23 — When He Hath Tried Me — The Hidden God, the Day in Court That Never Comes, and the Refiner's Gold Job 24 — Why the Wicked Go Unpunished — The Landmarks Removed, the Poor Who Hide Together, the Night-Criminals, and a Justice That Is Certain but Deferred Psalms 23 — The LORD Is My Shepherd — Green Pastures, the Valley of the Shadow, the Host's Table, and the House of the LORD For Ever Psalms 26 — Judge Me, and Try My Reins — A Psalm of Integrity, the Washed Hands, and the Love of the House of the LORD Moses 6 — The Book of Remembrance, the Slow of Speech, and the Gospel Preached to Adam Cross-references from the Treasury of 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