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Mormon 8:33 · 4 Nephi 1:26

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Book of Mormon Mormon 8:33
"built up churches unto yourselves to get gain"
Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:26
"build up churches unto themselves to get gain"

Shared words: to get gain

Near-verbatim cross-book pair, differing only in tense/person: Mormon 8:33 'built up churches unto yourselves to get gain' (Moroni's latter-day rebuke of the reader) vs 4 Nephi 1:26 'build up churches unto themselves to get gain' (the historical onset of Nephite apostasy in the two-hundred-and-first year). The active-voice build-up-churches-unto clause paired directly with 'to get gain' occurs at exactly three corpus verses (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze): 4 Nephi 1:26, Mormon 8:33, and D&C 10:56, whose 'build up churches unto themselves to get gain' is word for word with 4 Nephi 1:26. OLDER get-gain-church roots: the participle form 'all churches which are built up to get gain' at 1 Nephi 22:23 (Nephi's own functional redescription of the enemy category, already on this page) and 'built up many churches … that they may get gain' at 2 Nephi 26:20; the priestcraft/get-gain motive named at 2 Nephi 26:29 ('that they may get gain and praise of the world'). 4 Nephi carries the phrase forward but drops the 'to get gain' tail at 1:34 ('to build up many churches') and 1:41 ('build up churches unto themselves, and adorn them'). The 4 Nephi 1:26 <-> 2 Nephi 26:29 leg is hosted separately on church-of-god.md; this record is the Mormon-side cross-book pair.

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