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Mosiah 4:23 · 2 Nephi 9:30

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 4:23
"wo be unto that man, for his substance shall perish with him; and now, I say these things unto those who are rich as pertaining to the things of this world"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 9:30
"wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things of the world. For because they are rich they despise the poor, and they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their god. And behold, their treasure shall perish with them also"

Shared words: who are rich as

Double contact between the two wo's on the rich: (1) 'rich as to the things of the world' / 'rich as pertaining to the things of this world'; (2) possession-perishes-with-owner ('their treasure shall perish with them' / 'his substance shall perish with him'). Neither element is unique: 'things of the world' runs through nineteen verses across the frozen corpus (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze, D&C 1:19 and 35:13 the added carriers) (4 Nephi 1:24, Alma 32:3-4 and others in the record; 1 Corinthians 1:27-28, 7:34 in the New Testament), and the rich-as construction recurs at the far end here — 2 Nephi 9:30 IS 'rich as to the things of the world'; 'perish with' appears at nine record verses with mixed objects — persons (1 Nephi 7:15; Mosiah 19:12, 19:19) and not-persons (Mosiah 21:17 'perish with hunger', and the possessions of these two wo's). What remains distinctive is the co-occurrence of BOTH contacts in a single wo — rich-as-the-things-of-the-world and possession-perishing-with-its-owner — shared by just these two sermons. Neither sermon cites the other. Different pairing from jac-riches-despise (which uses 9:30's persecute-clause against Jacob 2:13).

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