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D&C 112:29 · 3 Nephi 11:34

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 112:29
"he that believeth not, and is not baptized, shall be damned"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 11:34
"And whoso believeth not in me, and is not baptized, shall be damned."

Shared words: and is not baptized, shall be damned

The believe-and-be-baptized formula runs through the corpus in a short and a long form, and the distribution is the whole ground of this pairing. The short form, whose negative half names belief only, stands at four verses in words identical apart from conjunctions: Mark 16:16, Mormon 9:23, Ether 4:18, and D&C 68:9 (that last paired with Mark at w6-dc68-believeth-baptized-mark16). Because those four are verbally interchangeable, none stands nearer to D&C 112:29 than the others. What breaks the tie is the clause 'and is not baptized', which none of the four carries and which 3 Nephi 11:34 carries exactly - these two are the corpus's only verses naming baptism on both sides of the sentence. Divergences reported: the record's verse names the object of belief ('believeth not in me') where the revelation does not, and the record splits the positive half into its own verse, 3 Nephi 11:33, where the revelation compresses both halves into one. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.

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