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4 Nephi 1:44 · 3 Nephi 28:9

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Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:44
"the disciples began to sorrow for the sins of the world"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 28:9
"neither sorrow save it be for the sins of the world"

Shared words: for the sins of the world

The one sorrow the three were allowed, realized. They were promised they would feel no sorrow 'save it be for the sins of the world' (3 Nephi 28:9; restated at 28:38 'save it were for the sins of the world'); at 4 Nephi 1:44, as the converted society decays, 'the disciples began to sorrow for the sins of the world' — the single grief the promise had permitted. The exact string 'for the sins of the world' occurs at ten verses in the record (and nowhere outside it), but only three join it to sorrow -- all three-Nephites material (4 Nephi 1:44; 3 Nephi 28:9; 3 Nephi 28:38). Everywhere else the string concerns Christ atoning for / taking away the sins of the world, not a disciple's sorrow. Not whole-clause verbatim: the contiguous shared string is 'for the sins of the world' — in 28:9 'save it be' sits between 'sorrow' and 'for the sins of the world'.

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