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Mosiah 26:4 · Mosiah 27:25

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 26:4
"even in their carnal and sinful state"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 27:25
"changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness"

Shared words: their carnal and

The frame — 26:4 'their carnal and sinful state', 27:25 'their carnal and fallen state' — occurs only in these two verses in the corpus, one adjective apart (sinful/fallen). 26:4 fixes the condition on the rising generation Alma was numbered among (27:8); 27:25 names it as the condition all must be changed from. Cf. Abinadi pairing the same vocabulary in one verse: 'his own carnal nature… remaineth in his fallen state' (Mosiah 16:5). Self-discovered, both ends in-span.