3 Nephi 2:2 · Jacob 7:2
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The exact label 'the doctrine of Christ' stands at six Book of Mormon verses — 2 Nephi 31:2, 31:21, 32:6 (Nephi's definition and its close), Jacob 7:2, 7:6 (the Sherem episode), 3 Nephi 2:2 — and, corpus-wide since the New-Testament freeze, additionally at Hebrews 6:1 ('the principles of the doctrine of Christ') and 2 John 1:9 (twice within the verse) (verified by a search of the corpus). The paired ends are the label's only two hostile predications in the Book of Mormon: Sherem's stated aim ('overthrow the doctrine of Christ' — the narrator's report) and the pre-Advent unbelief ('the doctrine of Christ was a foolish and a vain thing') — the record's first attack on the doctrine by argument and its last narrated one before the Lord's coming. The record is anchored on the shared label within that two-verse hostile class, not on the label's bare distribution. Sibling: jac-doc-label (Jacob 7:6 <-> 2 Nephi 31:21, doctrine-of-christ.md) pairs Sherem's straight label-use with Nephi's closing declaration; this record pairs the two hostile framings with each other. Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).