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D&C 121:22 · Matthew 18:6

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 121:22
"It had been better for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea."
New Testament Matthew 18:6
"it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Shared words: drowned in the depth of the sea

The sentence is carried over entire and pluralised: 'better for him' against 'better for them', 'his neck' against 'their necks'. 'drowned in the depth of the sea' stands at exactly three distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Matthew 18:6, D&C 54:5, and this verse. Two further tellings of the same saying end differently, 'cast into the sea' at Mark 9:42 and the same at Luke 17:2, so the depth-of-the-sea wording is the one this verse follows. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.