Every scripture reflection and discipleship note David has published on LDS Daily Path. Showing older entries, page 7.
People call Philippians the happy letter, but chapter 1 is a man in chains waiting on a trial. Here's what I found when I read it with that in mind.
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The armor gets all the attention in Ephesians 6, but the last real request Paul makes is for something else, and it's easy to read past.
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Leviticus 7 is known for the ban on fat and blood, but the rule that stopped me was about how many days you could keep the meat.
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D&C 96 has no famous verse. It ends with a man promised eternal life and told to go clear the debts off a house, and I can't stop thinking about the order.
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Nehor is a pleasant preacher for five verses. Notes on Alma 1, what the law could and couldn't reach, and why the Church ends the chapter rich.
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Ephesians 5 is taught from verse 22 on, but the verse that frames it sits at the end of a list that starts in verse 18. Here's what the list does to the rest.
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Verse 26 gets framed and hung on walls as never go to bed angry. Read in the chapter around it, it says less than that and asks more.
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Leviticus 6 asks you to pay back a neighbor plus a fifth before you bring the ram. Then it spends 23 verses on ashes, flour and a clay pot.
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The rebuke in D&C 95 is aimed at something smaller than refusal, and verse 3 says exactly what. A look at the word, the building, and the dates.
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Everybody quotes verse 26 on the voice of the people. Verses 28 and 29, on what happens when a judge gets it wrong, are the part Mosiah had to design.
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