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Mormon 9:9 · James 1:17

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Book of Mormon Mormon 9:9
"God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing"
New Testament James 1:17
"the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning"

Shared words: is no variableness neither shadow of

The noun 'variableness' stands at exactly two corpus verses (verified by a search of the corpus): Mormon 9:9 and James 1:17 — before the New-Testament freeze it was Book-of-Mormon-unique. Divergences reported, not scored: James reads 'shadow of turning' where Moroni reads 'shadow of changing' (in the record, 'shadow of turning' belongs to Alma 7:20, and 'shadow of changing' recurs at Mormon 9:10); James points the pair with a comma ('no variableness, neither'); James predicates it of 'the Father of lights', Moroni of God inside the refrain-frame 'the same yesterday, today, and forever'. That refrain stands at seven Book of Mormon verses ('yesterday, today, and forever'; 2 Nephi 2:4 carries the comma-form 'the same, yesterday'), and its one Bible-side locus is Hebrews 13:8 ('Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever' — KJV two-word spellings), which the page states as a distribution fact without registering — the refrain is too widely spread to anchor one pairing, the page's standing rule. Moroni introduces his sentence as a reading-claim — 'For do we not read that' — naming no book, so the pairing is the wiki's. Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).