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Mosiah 2:33 · Mosiah 3:25

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 2:33
"for if he listeth to obey him, and remaineth and dieth in his sins, the same drinketh damnation to his own soul"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 3:25
"from whence they can no more return; therefore they have drunk damnation to their own souls"

Shared words: damnation to

Internal formula of the discourse — 'drinketh damnation to his own soul' (2:33), 'drink damnation to their own souls' (3:18), 'drunk damnation to their own souls' (3:25), 'drinketh damnation to his soul' (3 Nephi 18:29) — occurring at exactly four verses in the record - Mosiah 2:33 (Benjamin's voice), 3:18 and 3:25 (the angel's words he relays), and 3 Nephi 18:29 ('eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul', the risen Lord's sacrament warning) - and nowhere else in the record, Moroni included. Third occurrence, 3:18: 'men drink damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and become as little children'. The drink image is made literal at 3:26 ('drunk out of the cup of the wrath of God'), the cup the covenant response asks to escape (5:5). Corpus disclosure: 3 Nephi 18:29 echoes 1 Corinthians 11:29 ('he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself'), the New Testament source of the eat-and-drink-damnation image, now frozen in the corpus.

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