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Alma 18:23 · 2 Corinthians 12:16

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Book of Mormon Alma 18:23
"And thus he was caught with guile."
New Testament 2 Corinthians 12:16
"nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile"

Shared words: with guile

The record's verdict on Lamoni — "And thus he was caught with guile." (Alma 18:23) — and Paul's ironic self-description — "being crafty, I caught you with guile" (2 Corinthians 12:16) — are the corpus's only two verses to catch someone "with guile". The exact strings differ ("caught with guile" / "caught you with guile"), and Exodus 21:14 carries "with guile" without the catching. Lamoni is caught toward belief; Paul's phrase concerns a burden he did not impose — any reading of that inversion is interpretive.

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