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Alma 31:28 · Alma 38:14

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Book of Mormon Alma 31:28
"We thank thee, O God, for we are a chosen people unto thee, while others shall perish"
Book of Mormon Alma 38:14
"Do not say: O God, I thank thee that we are better than our brethren"

Shared words: thank thee

The Rameumptom set prayer and its negative photograph. Alma 38:14 is the form of prayer Alma forbids his son Shiblon, naming its target outright the prior verse: 'Do not pray as the Zoramites do' (Alma 38:13). Both verses share the thank-thee frame — 31:28 'We thank thee, O God', 38:14 'O God, I thank thee' — joined to the claim of standing above others. Internal Alma-to-Alma pair; the text supplies the cross-reference itself (38:13). The Luke 18:11 Pharisee resonance is in-corpus (frozen); disclosed here, not registered.