Every scripture reflection and discipleship note David has published on LDS Daily Path. Showing older entries, page 6.
Paul lists seven credentials in Philippians 3:5-6, and none of them is false. What he does with the list in verses 7 and 8 is the part worth slowing down for.
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Leviticus 10 explains the offense in five words and spends the rest of the chapter on Aaron. A plain read of the strange fire and Aaron's one answer.
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Section 98 counts to three and then to four, and I don't think "seventy times seven" erases the count. Here's what the verses actually say.
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A coworker asked if Alma 3:6 says what he read online. Here is what the chapter says the curse was, and who put the red on the Amlicites' foreheads.
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Philippians 2 is known for the hymn in verses 5-11. I keep stopping at verse 26, where a recovering man is upset that the news of his illness got home.
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The fire in Leviticus 9:24 gets the attention, but the fourteen verses of plain work before it matter just as much, and so does the calf Aaron starts with.
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Moses does nearly all the work in Leviticus 8. Aaron lays on hands, eats boiled meat and waits a week at the door, and the chapter never gives him a line.
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The school in D&C 97 gets praise and a warning in the same few verses, and verse 8 says more about the pure in heart than I expected.
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Lehi's vision has the lost, the ashamed and the ones who hold on. Verse 14 has a group that gets one sentence and almost never gets a lesson.
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The Nephites win Alma 2 and lose 6,562 of their own. I don't think it's the "righteous side always wins" chapter people say it is.
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