3 Nephi 11:11 · Mosiah 16:9
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The full title 'the light and the life of the world' stands word-for-word at exactly seven corpus verses (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze) — Mosiah 16:9 (its first attestation IN THE RECORD, Abinadi's trial sermon), 3 Nephi 9:18 (the voice in the darkness), 3 Nephi 11:11 (the risen Lord in person at Bountiful), and D&C 12:9, 34:2, 39:2, 45:7 — with the halves reversed at two more, Alma 38:9 ('he is the life and the light of the world') and D&C 11:28 ('I am the life and the light of the world'). The first-attestation framing above is record-scoped and holds at that scope; the title is not rare corpus-wide. This record pairs the in-person Bountiful declaration with the first attestation; its siblings complete the family on abinadi.md: 3ne-life-light-advent (3 Nephi 9:18 <-> Mosiah 16:9) and alma-life-light (Alma 38:9 <-> Mosiah 16:9). Who is quoting whom stays open — Mosiah 16:9 is the title's first verse in the record, but Abinadi attributes his doctrine to 'all the prophets' (Mosiah 13:33), so the record allows both a ratified-coinage and an older-shared-idiom reading; logged as an open uncertainty, not settled here. Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).
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