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Helaman 3:29 · Hebrews 4:12

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Book of Mormon Helaman 3:29
"whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil"
New Testament Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit"

Shared words: is quick and powerful

Mormon's 'word of God' exhortation beside Hebrews 4:12. Shared distinctive strands: 'the word of God' + 'quick and powerful' + 'divide asunder'/'dividing asunder'. Variants reported, not scored: Hebrews 'quick, and powerful' (comma), Helaman 'quick and powerful' (none). Hebrews-UNIQUE material reported as a fact: 'sharper than any twoedged sword … of soul and spirit … discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart' has no counterpart in Helaman 3:29 (the BoM shares the quick/powerful/divide-asunder core but not the sword or the anatomy). DICTION FACT, re-derived from raw 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze (the earlier statement of it, that the comma-less form was corpus-unique to Helaman 3:29, no longer holds): 'quick and powerful' (comma-less) stands in the record only at Helaman 3:29, and corpus-wide at seven verses -- Helaman 3:29 and six Doctrine and Covenants revelation-openings, D&C 6:2, 11:2, 12:2, 14:2, 27:1, 33:1. 'divide asunder'/'dividing asunder' also stands at 1 Nephi 17:45, 3 Nephi 8:6, Helaman 5:33, Helaman 12:8 -- and Helaman 3:29 is the record's only verse attaching it to 'the word of God,' as Hebrews 4:12 does, but that attachment is not corpus-unique either: five of the six D&C carriers (6:2, 11:2, 12:2, 14:2, 33:1) likewise join 'dividing asunder' to the Lord's word, D&C 6:2 reading 'my word, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword'. The record rests on the shared strands at its two ends, which are unchanged; the exclusivity framing is withdrawn. Helaman 3:29 already anchors the internal record hel-tree-lay-hold-word (Helaman 3:29 <-> 1 Nephi 15:24, hosted tree-of-life.md, whose note had treated Hebrews 4:12 as log-only before the NT freeze); this adds the now-legal Hebrews 4:12 endpoint. Distinct verse-pair. Class (c): Mormon's own editorial voice; no source named; origin out of scope.