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Mosiah 3:19 · 1 Corinthians 2:14

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 3:19
"the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man"
New Testament 1 Corinthians 2:14
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Shared words: the natural man

'the natural man' — the unregenerate self set against the Spirit. Scope = the whole corpus. 'natural man' occurs at 1 Corinthians 2:14; Mosiah 3:19 (x2); Alma 26:21 ('what natural man is there that knoweth these things' — rhetorical); Moses 1:14 ('I can look upon thee in the natural man' — the mortal body). The shared anthropological use (natural man vs. the things of the Spirit) is specific to Mosiah 3:19 and 1 Corinthians 2:14; the other two are different senses. The shared term is three words — a narrow basis, noted for editorial review. The existing internal record mos-atone-enemy-to-god (Mosiah 3:19 ↔ Mosiah 16:5) grounds 'enemy to God'; this grounds the 'natural man'/Spirit far end, legal since 1 Corinthians's retirement to ordinary status. Standing disclosure required on host. Origin out of scope.