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2 Nephi 9:16 · Revelation 22:11

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Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 9:16
"they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and they who are filthy shall be filthy still"
New Testament Revelation 22:11
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."

Shared words: be righteous still, and

The fixed-state saying. Across the corpus 'righteous still' stands at exactly three verses — 2 Nephi 9:16, Mormon 9:14, Revelation 22:11 — and 'filthy still' at five, those three plus D&C 88:35 and 88:102 (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze; 88:35 carries the saying in Revelation's own declarative shape); neither stands anywhere else in the Bible. Variants reported, not scored: Jacob's clause is a declaration about a plural class ('they who are righteous shall be righteous still'), Revelation's is a jussive addressed to an individual ('let him be righteous still'); Jacob names two states, Revelation four (unjust, filthy, righteous, holy), in the order filthy-before-righteous, and Jacob in the order righteous-before-filthy. Mormon 9:14 carries the saying with a further pair, happy and unhappy (see rev-w1-09). The corpus gives no account of the parallel; origin outside this wiki's scope. Class (c). asserted_by wiki.