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Alma 5:58 · Revelation 20:15

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Book of Mormon Alma 5:58
"For the names of the righteous shall be written in the book of life"
New Testament Revelation 20:15
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

Shared words: written in the book of life

The run 'written in the book of life' stands at exactly four verses in the corpus: Alma 5:58, Revelation 13:8, 17:8, 20:15. The book itself, 'book of life,' stands at twelve corpus verses (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze): Alma 5:58, Philippians 4:3, seven Revelation verses (3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15, 21:27, 22:19), and three in the Doctrine and Covenants — 128:6 and 128:7, which quote and expound Revelation 20:12 by name, and 132:19, an independent use; Alma 5:58 is the Book of Mormon's only occurrence. Variants reported, not scored: all three Revelation occurrences of the run are negated ('not written,' 'not found written'), while Alma's is affirmative — the names of the righteous SHALL be written. The blotting half of the theme is carried in Alma at the preceding verse, 5:57, 'their names shall be blotted out,' and in Revelation at 3:5, 'I will not blot out his name out of the book of life'; that pair is NOT registered here, because 'blotted out' is widespread in the corpus (Alma 1:24, 6:3, Mosiah 1:12, 5:11, 26:36, Moroni 6:7, Acts 3:19, Isaiah 44:22, Nehemiah 4:5, Psalms 69:28, 109:13, 109:14) and Psalms 69:28 already reads 'blotted out of the book of the living'. The corpus gives no account of the parallel; origin outside this wiki's scope. Class (c). asserted_by wiki.