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Moroni 10:32 · 2 Nephi 25:23

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Book of Mormon Moroni 10:32
"then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 25:23
"it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do"

Moroni's farewell (Moroni 10:1, 'I, Moroni') ends the record with 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him … then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ' (10:32), which answers Nephi's compressed formula 'it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do' (2 Nephi 25:23). The near-end is 10:32 -- the closing invitation proper ('come unto Christ, and be perfected in him'), whose by-grace clause ('by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ') is the tightest structural parallel to Nephi's by-grace clause ('by grace that we are saved'). 10:33 is not the primary: it is a conditional restatement ('And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ …') that adds the blood-of-Christ sanctification ('sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ') -- carried in-note as the atonement-anchored continuation, not the anchor. The two ends share the by-grace-saved/perfected doctrine and the keyword 'grace' but NO distinctive contiguous run spans both -- Nephi reads 'by grace', Moroni 'by his grace' / 'by the grace of God'. Per register precedent (moro-fhc-miracles-unbelief, eth-faith-litany-fire: a pair with no distinctive shared run is typed paraphrase), the type is paraphrase. Moroni 10:32 reads 'then is his grace sufficient for you' (inverted -- 'is his grace sufficient', not the his-grace-is-sufficient word order); the exact string 'grace is sufficient' does NOT occur in Moroni 10:32. Ether 12:26-27's 'my grace is sufficient' (the meek, 12:26; all men, 12:27) is the nearer VERBAL cousin -- it carries the exact 'grace is sufficient' word order that 10:32 inverts ('grace is sufficient' occurs at Ether 12:26, 12:27 in the record, and corpus-wide at 2 Corinthians 12:9). But Ether 12:26-27 is the weakness-made-strong/humility promise, not the by-grace-saved doctrine; the registered doctrinal match is Nephi's 25:23. Cross-linked: alma-ammon-all-we-can-do (Alma 24:11 <-> 2 Nephi 25:23, people-of-ammon.md) shares my exact far-end quote from the OTHER side -- it pairs 25:23's 'after all we can do' tail with the Anti-Nephi-Lehies' repentance; mine pairs 25:23's by-grace clause with Moroni's closing perfected-in-Christ invitation (same verse, different far ends, different contact clauses -- theirs 'all we can do', mine 'by grace'). Both quotes verbatim contiguous. Voice: Moroni's farewell (ch 10).