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D&C 123:16 · James 3:4

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 123:16
"that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm"
New Testament James 3:4
"yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth."

Shared words: a very small helm

'a very small helm' stands at exactly two distinct frozen verses in the corpus: these. Both set the small helm against a great ship and against weather. The older verse uses the figure for the tongue's power over a life; this one for the value of small labours in a large cause, and states the application in the next verse, 'let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power'. D&C 121:1-6 is a prayer; the answering first-person voice begins at D&C 121:7 and continues through D&C 122. D&C 123 is counsel offered by a plural first person to brethren, not a divine command. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.