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D&C 109:75 · 1 Thessalonians 4:17

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 109:75
"we shall be caught up in the cloud to meet thee, that we may ever be with the Lord"
New Testament 1 Thessalonians 4:17
"shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

Shared words: ever be with the Lord

The two share a five-word run, 'ever be with the Lord', and the whole shape of the sentence. Divergences: the letter's plural 'clouds' is singular in the prayer; the letter's 'to meet the Lord in the air' is 'to meet thee' in the prayer, which is addressing that same Lord directly and so uses the second person; and the letter's 'caught up together with them' drops the companions. D&C 109 is a prayer addressed to God, not a divine first-person address; the section's statements are the petitioners' and are reported as such. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.

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