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Joseph Smith—History 1:19 · 2 Timothy 3:5

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Pearl of Great Price Joseph Smith—History 1:19
"having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof"
New Testament 2 Timothy 3:5
"Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away"

Shared words: having a form of godliness, but

The account gives the sentence as the answering Personage's own words ('the Personage who addressed me said… that:'), naming no source text. The run 'form of godliness' stands at exactly three corpus verses (verified by a search of the corpus): Joseph Smith—History 1:19, 2 Timothy 3:5, and Moroni 7:30 — the third in a different sense ('showing themselves… in every form of godliness', of ministering angels), disclosed and not paired. The godliness-plus-power-denial pairing is confined to the first two. Divergence reported: the account reads 'but they deny the power thereof' where 2 Timothy reads 'but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.' The quoted answer's earlier clauses — the lips-and-hearts material — remain unregistered candidates per the page's docket note; this record grounds only the form-of-godliness clause. The pairing is the wiki's (asserted_by: wiki under the named-source rule). Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).