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D&C 121:38 · Acts 9:5

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 121:38
"he is left unto himself, to kick against the pricks, to persecute the saints, and to fight against God."
New Testament Acts 9:5
"it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

Shared words: to kick against the pricks

The five-word idiom is carried over unchanged. 'kick against the pricks' stands at exactly three distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Acts 9:5, Acts 26:14 - the same words in a second telling of the same event - and this verse. In both older verses the idiom is spoken to the man persecuting; here it is stated about him and joined to two further clauses, 'to persecute the saints, and to fight against God', which state as consequences what the older verses state as the man's situation. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.