This page contains supplementary materials for “Questions in the Book of Mormon.” Please see the other post for more information.
Download the spreadsheet: Questions in the Book of Mormon.zip. (After downloading, extract the archive to find the file “Questions in the Book of Mormon.ods.” This should open with LibreOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel, or any other self-respecting spreadsheet application.)
This table contains all of the questions identified in the Book of Mormon:
verse(s) | text | questioner | questionee | type |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 Nephi 3:29 | Why do ye smite your younger brother with a rod? | Angel | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 3:29 | Know ye not that the Lord hath chosen him to be a ruler over you, and this because of your iniquities? | Angel | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 3:31 | How is it possible that the Lord will deliver Laban into our hands? | Laman and Lemuel | Nephi | contentious |
1 Nephi 3:31 | Behold, he is a mighty man, and he can command fifty, yea, even he can slay fifty; then why not us? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | contentious |
1 Nephi 4:1 | Let us go up again unto Jerusalem, and let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; for behold he is mightier than all the earth, then why not mightier than Laban and his fifty, yea, or even than his tens of thousands? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 4:3 | Now behold ye know that this is true; and ye also know that an angel hath spoken unto you; wherefore can ye doubt? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 4:34 | Surely the Lord hath commanded us to do this thing; and shall we not be diligent in keeping the commandments of the Lord? | Nephi | Zoram | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 7:8 | Behold ye are mine elder brethren, and how is it that ye are so hard in your hearts, and so blind in your minds, that ye have need that I, your younger brother, should speak unto you, yea, and set an example for you? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 7:9 | How is it that ye have not hearkened unto the word of the Lord? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 7:10 | How is it that ye have forgotten that ye have seen an angel of the Lord? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 7:11 | Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten what great things the Lord hath done for us, in delivering us out of the hands of Laban, and also that we should obtain the record? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 7:12 | Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 11:2 | Behold, what desirest thou? | Spirit | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 11:4 | Believest thou that thy father saw the tree of which he hath spoken? | Spirit | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 11:10 | What desirest thou? | Spirit | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 11:14 | Nephi, what beholdest thou? | Angel | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 11:16 | Knowest thou the condescension of God? | Angel | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 11:21 | Knowest thou the meaning of the tree which thy father saw? | Angel | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 12:9 | Thou rememberest the twelve apostles of the Lamb? | Angel | Nephi | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 13:2 | What beholdest thou? | Angel | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 13:21 | Knowest thou the meaning of the book? | Angel | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 14:8 | Rememberest thou the covenants of the Father unto the house of Israel? | Angel | Nephi | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 15:8 | Have ye inquired of the Lord? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | inquiry |
1 Nephi 15:10 | How is it that ye do not keep the commandments of the Lord? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 15:10 | How is it that ye will perish, because of the hardness of your hearts? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 15:11 | Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 15:12 | Behold, I say unto you, that the house of Israel was compared unto an olive tree, by the Spirit of the Lord which was in our father; and behold are we not broken off from the house of Israel, and are we not a branch of the house of Israel? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 15:15 | And then at that day will they not rejoice and give praise unto their everlasting God, their rock and their salvation? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 15:15 | Yea, at that day, will they not receive the strength and nourishment from the true vine? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 15:15 | Yea, will they not come unto the true fold of God? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 15:21 | What meaneth this thing which our father saw in a dream? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 15:21 | What meaneth the tree which he saw? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 15:23 | What meaneth the rod of iron which our father saw, that led to the tree? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 15:26 | What meaneth the river of water which our father saw? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 15:31 | Doth this thing mean the torment of the body in the days of probation, or doth it mean the final state of the soul after the death of the temporal body, or doth it speak of the things which are temporal? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 16:23 | Whither shall I go to obtain food? | Nephi | Lehi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 17:9 | Lord, whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after the manner which thou hast shown unto me? | Nephi | Lord | prayer |
1 Nephi 17:23 | Do ye believe that our fathers, who were the children of Israel, would have been led away out of the hands of the Egyptians if they had not hearkened unto the words of the Lord? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 17:24 | Yea, do ye suppose that they would have been led out of bondage, if the Lord had not commanded Moses that he should lead them out of bondage? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 17:33 | And now, do ye suppose that the children of this land, who were in the land of promise, who were driven out by our fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 17:34 | Do ye suppose that our fathers would have been more choice than they if they had been righteous? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 17:46 | O, then, why is it, that ye can be so hard in your hearts? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 17:51 | And now, if the Lord has such great power, and has wrought so many miracles among the children of men, how is it that he cannot instruct me, that I should build a ship? | Nephi | Laman and Lemuel | contentious |
1 Nephi 20:6 | Thou hast seen and heard all this; and will ye not declare them? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 20:14 | All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these things unto them? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 21:15 | For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 21:21 | Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? | House of Israel | self | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 21:21 | And who hath brought up these? | House of Israel | self | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 21:21 | Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been? | House of Israel | self | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 21:24 | For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives delivered? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
1 Nephi 22:1 | What meaneth these things which ye have read? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
1 Nephi 22:1 | Behold, are they to be understood according to things which are spiritual, which shall come to pass according to the spirit and not the flesh? | Laman and Lemual | Nephi | inquiry |
2 Nephi 4:26 | O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions? | Nephi | self | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 4:27 | And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh? | Nephi | self | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 4:27 | Yea, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? | Nephi | self | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 4:27 | Why am I angry because of mine enemy? | Nephi | self | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 4:31 | O Lord, wilt thou redeem my soul? | Nephi | Lord | prayer |
2 Nephi 4:31 | Wilt thou deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies? | Nephi | Lord | prayer |
2 Nephi 4:31 | Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of sin? | Nephi | Lord | prayer |
2 Nephi 6:16 | For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:1 | Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:1 | Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:1 | To whom have I put thee away, or to which of my creditors have I sold you? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:1 | Yea, to whom have I sold you? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:2 | O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:8 | Who will contend with me? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:8 | Who is mine adversary? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 7:10 | Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 8:9 | Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? | Isaiah | Lord | prayer |
2 Nephi 8:10 | Art thou not he who hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? | Isaiah | Lord | prayer |
2 Nephi 8:12 | Behold, who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of man, who shall die, and of the son of man, who shall be made like unto grass? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 8:13 | And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth, and hast feared continually every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 8:13 | And where is the fury of the oppressor? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 8:19 | These two sons are come unto thee, who shall be sorry for thee—thy desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword—and by whom shall I comfort thee? | Lord | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 9:47 | But behold, my brethren, is it expedient that I should awake you to an awful reality of these things? | Jacob | Nephites | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 9:47 | Would I harrow up your souls if your minds were pure? | Jacob | Nephites | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 9:47 | Would I be plain unto you according to the plainness of the truth if ye were freed from sin? | Jacob | Nephites | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 10:9 | Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers; wherefore, the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles, for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute? | Jacob | Nephites | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 12:22 | Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 13:15 | What mean ye? | Lord | “ancients of his people and the princes thereof” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 15:4 | What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? | Lord | “inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 16:8 | Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? | Lord | Isaiah | inquiry |
2 Nephi 16:11 | Lord, how long? | Isaiah | Lord | prayer |
2 Nephi 17:13 | Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? | Isaiah | “house of David” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 18:19 | And when they shall say unto you: Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and mutter—should not a people seek unto their God for the living to hear from the dead? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:3 | And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? | Lord | Assyria | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:3 | to whom will ye flee for help? | Lord | Assyria | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:3 | and where will ye leave your glory? | Lord | Assyria | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:8 | Are not my princes altogether kings? | king of Assyria | none | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:9 | Is not Calno as Carchemish? | king of Assyria | none | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:9 | Is not Hamath as Arpad? | king of Assyria | none | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:9 | Is not Samaria as Damascus? | king of Assyria | none | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:11 | Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her idols? | king of Assyria | none | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:15 | Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? | Isaiah | king of Assyria | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 20:15 | Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? | Isaiah | king of Assyria | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:4 | How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased! | House of Israel | king of Babylon (Lucifer) | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:10 | Art thou also become weak as we? | “kings of the nations” | Lucifer | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:10 | Art thou become like unto us? | “kings of the nations” | Lucifer | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:12 | How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! | “kings of the nations” | Lucifer | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:12 | Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! | “kings of the nations” | Lucifer | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:16 | Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms? | “they that see thee” | Lucifer | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:17 | And made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his prisoners? | “they that see thee” | Lucifer | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:27 | For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:27 | And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 24:32 | What shall then answer the messengers of the nations? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 26:25 | Behold, doth he cry unto any, saying: Depart from me? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 26:26 | Behold, hath he commanded any that they should depart out of the synagogues, or out of the houses of worship? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 26:27 | Hath he commanded any that they should not partake of his salvation? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 26:28 | Behold, hath the Lord commanded any that they should not partake of his goodness? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 27:27 | Who seeth us, and who knoweth us? | “them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord” | none | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 27:27 | For shall the work say of him that made it, he made me not? | Lord | “them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 27:27 | Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, he had no understanding? | Lord | “them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:4 | And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they receive from them? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:4 | Yea, what do the Gentiles mean? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:4 | Do they remember the travails, and the labors, and the pains of the Jews, and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth salvation unto the Gentiles? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:5 | O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:6 | Have ye obtained a Bible save it were by the Jews? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:7 | Know ye not that there are more nations than one? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:7 | Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:8 | Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 29:8 | Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? | Lord | Gentiles | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 31:5 | And now, if the Lamb of God, he being holy, should have need to be baptized by water, to fulfil all righteousness, O then, how much more need have we, being unholy, to be baptized, yea, even by water! | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 31:6 | And now, I would ask of you, my beloved brethren, wherein the Lamb of God did fulfil all righteousness in being baptized by water? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 31:7 | Know ye not that he was holy? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 31:10 | Wherefore, my beloved brethren, can we follow Jesus save we shall be willing to keep the commandments of the Father? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 31:19 | And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 32:1 | But, behold, why do ye ponder these things in your hearts? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 32:2 | Do ye not remember that I said unto you that after ye had received the Holy Ghost ye could speak with the tongue of angels? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
2 Nephi 32:2 | And now, how could ye speak with the tongue of angels save it were by the Holy Ghost? | Nephi | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 2:14 | And now, my brethren, do ye suppose that God justifieth you in this thing? | Jacob | “my brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 2:20 | And now, my brethren, I have spoken unto you concerning pride; and those of you which have afflicted your neighbor, and persecuted him because ye were proud in your hearts, of the things which God hath given you, what say ye of it? | Jacob | “my brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 2:21 | Do ye not suppose that such things are abominable unto him who created all flesh? | Jacob | “my brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 3:7 | Behold, their husbands love their wives, and their wives love their husbands; and their husbands and their wives love their children; and their unbelief and their hatred towards you is because of the iniquity of their fathers; wherefore, how much better are you than they, in the sight of your great Creator? | Jacob | “my brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 4:9 | Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure? | Jacob | “brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 4:12 | And now, beloved, marvel not that I tell you these things; for why not speak of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a resurrection and the world to come? | Jacob | “beloved” | rhetorical |
Jacob 4:17 | And now, my beloved, how is it possible that these, after having rejected the sure foundation, can ever build upon it, that it may become the head of their corner? | Jacob | “beloved” | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:1 | Behold, my brethren, do ye not remember to have read the words of the prophet Zenos, which he spake unto the house of Israel, saying: | Jacob | “my brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:21 | How comest thou hither to plant this tree, or this branch of the tree? | servant | Lord of the vineyard | inquiry |
Jacob 5:33 | What shall we do unto the tree, that I may preserve again good fruit thereof unto mine own self? | Lord of the vineyard | servant | inquiry |
Jacob 5:41 | What could I have done more for my vineyard? | Lord of the vineyard | servant | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:47 | But what could I have done more in my vineyard? | Lord of the vineyard | servant | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:47 | Have I slackened mine hand, that I have not nourished it? | Lord of the vineyard | servant | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:47 | Who is it that has corrupted my vineyard? | Lord of the vineyard | servant | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:48 | Is it not the loftiness of thy vineyard—have not the branches thereof overcome the roots which are good? | servant | Lord of the vineyard | rhetorical |
Jacob 5:48 | Behold, I say, is not this the cause that the trees of thy vineyard have become corrupted? | servant | Lord of the vineyard | inquiry |
Jacob 5:49 | What could I have done more for my vineyard? | Lord of the vineyard | servant | rhetorical |
Jacob 6:6 | Yea, today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts; for why will ye die? | Jacob | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 6:7 | For behold, after ye have been nourished by the good word of God all the day long, will ye bring forth evil fruit, that ye must be hewn down and cast into the fire? | Jacob | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 6:8 | Behold, will ye reject these words? | Jacob | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 6:8 | Will ye reject the words of the prophets; and will ye reject all the words which have been spoken concerning Christ, after so many have spoken concerning him; and deny the good word of Christ, and the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and quench the Holy Spirit, and make a mock of the great plan of redemption, which hath been laid for you? | Jacob | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 6:9 | Know ye not that if ye will do these things, that the power of the redemption and the resurrection, which is in Christ, will bring you to stand with shame and awful guilt before the bar of God? | Jacob | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 6:12 | O be wise; what can I say more? | Jacob | “my beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Jacob 7:9 | Deniest thou the Christ who shall come? | Jacob | Sherem | inquiry |
Jacob 7:10 | Believest thou the scriptures? | Jacob | Sherem | inquiry |
Jacob 7:14 | What am I that I should tempt God to show unto thee a sign in the thing which thou knowest to be true? | Jacob | Sherem | rhetorical |
Enos 1:7 | Lord, how is it done? | Enos | Lord | prayer |
Jarom 1:2 | For what could I write more than my fathers have written? | Jarom | none | rhetorical |
Jarom 1:2 | For have not they revealed the plan of salvation? | Jarom | none | rhetorical |
Mosiah 2:18 | Behold, ye have called me your king; and if I, whom ye call your king, do labor to serve you, then ought not ye to labor to serve one another? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 2:24 | And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 2:25 | And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 4:19 | For behold, are we not all beggars? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 4:19 | Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 4:20 | And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 5:13 | For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 5:14 | And again, doth a man take an ass which belongeth to his neighbor, and keep him? | Benjamin | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mosiah 7:10 | And now, I desire to know the cause whereby ye were so bold as to come near the walls of the city, when I, myself, was with my guards without the gate? | Limhi | Ammon | inquiry |
Mosiah 7:23 | And now, is not this grievous to be borne? | Limhi | his people | rhetorical |
Mosiah 7:23 | And is not this, our affliction, great? | Limhi | his people | rhetorical |
Mosiah 7:28 | Therefore, who wondereth that they are in bondage, and that they are smitten with sore afflictions? | Limhi | his people | rhetorical |
Mosiah 8:11 | Canst thou translate? | Limhi | Ammon | inquiry |
Mosiah 8:12 | Knowest thou of any one that can translate? | Limhi | Ammon | inquiry |
Mosiah 11:27 | Who is Abinadi, that I and my people should be judged of him, or who is the Lord, that shall bring upon my people such great affliction? | Noah | his people | contentious |
Mosiah 12:13 | And now, O king, what great evil hast thou done, or what great sins have thy people committed, that we should be condemned of God or judged of this man? | his people | Noah | contentious |
Mosiah 12:20-25 | 20 And it came to pass that one of them said unto him: What meaneth the words which are written, and which have been taught by our fathers, saying:
21 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings; that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good; that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth; 22 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion; 23 Break forth into joy; sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem; 24 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God? |
Noah’s priests | Abinadi | inquiry |
Mosiah 12:25 | And now Abinadi said unto them: Are you priests, and pretend to teach this people, and to understand the spirit of prophesying, and yet desire to know of me what these things mean? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 12:27 | Therefore, what teach ye this people? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | inquiry |
Mosiah 12:29 | If ye teach the law of Moses why do ye not keep it? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 12:29 | Why do ye set your hearts upon riches? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 12:29 | Why do ye commit whoredoms and spend your strength with harlots, yea, and cause this people to commit sin, that the Lord has cause to send me to prophesy against this people, yea, even a great evil against this people? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 12:30 | Know ye not that I speak the truth? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 12:31 | And what know ye concerning the law of Moses? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | inquiry |
Mosiah 12:31 | Doth salvation come by the law of Moses? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | inquiry |
Mosiah 12:31 | What say ye? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | inquiry |
Mosiah 12:37 | Have ye done all this? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 12:37 | And have ye taught this people that they should do all these things? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 13:25 | Have ye taught this people that they should observe to do all these things for to keep these commandments? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 13:32 | And now, did they understand the law? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 13:33 | For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 13:33 | Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began—have they not spoken more or less concerning these things? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 13:34 | Have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 13:35 | Yea, and have they not said also that he should bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, and that he, himself, should be oppressed and afflicted? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 14:1 | Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
Mosiah 14:8 | He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? | Isaiah | House of Israel | rhetorical |
Mosiah 15:10 | And now I say unto you, who shall declare his generation? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 15:10 | And now what say ye? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 15:10 | And who shall be his seed? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 15:12 | And now, are they not his seed? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 15:13 | Yea, and are not the prophets, every one that has opened his mouth to prophesy, that has not fallen into transgression, I mean all the holy prophets ever since the world began? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | rhetorical |
Mosiah 15:27 | Therefore ought ye not to tremble? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 16:13 | And now, ought ye not to tremble and repent of your sins, and remember that only in and through Christ ye can be saved? | Abinadi | Noah’s priests | contentious |
Mosiah 18:10 | Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you? | Alma the elder | his people | rhetorical |
Mosiah 20:14 | What cause have ye to come up to war against my people? | Limhi | King of the Lamanites | inquiry |
Mosiah 20:14 | Behold, my people have not broken the oath that I made unto you; therefore, why should ye break the oath which ye made unto my people? | Limhi | King of the Lamanites | inquiry |
Mosiah 20:18 | For do ye not remember the priests of thy father, whom this people sought to destroy? | Gideon | Limhi | rhetorical |
Mosiah 20:18 | And are they not in the wilderness? | Gideon | Limhi | rhetorical |
Mosiah 20:18 | And are not they the ones who have stolen the daughters of the Lamanites? | Gideon | Limhi | rhetorical |
Mosiah 20:21 | For are not the words of Abinadi fulfilled, which he prophesied against us—and all this because we would not hearken unto the words of the Lord, and turn from our iniquities? | Gideon | Limhi | rhetorical |
Mosiah 27:13 | Alma, arise and stand forth, for why persecutest thou the church of God? | Angel | Alma the younger | contentious |
Mosiah 27:15 | And now behold, can ye dispute the power of God? | Angel | Alma the younger | contentious |
Mosiah 27:15 | For behold, doth not my voice shake the earth? | Angel | Alma the younger | contentious |
Mosiah 27:15 | And can ye not also behold me before you? | Angel | Alma the younger | contentious |
Alma 5:6 | And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, you that belong to this church, have you sufficiently retained in remembrance the captivity of your fathers? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:6 | Yea, and have you sufficiently retained in remembrance his mercy and long-suffering towards them? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:6 | And moreover, have ye sufficiently retained in remembrance that he has delivered their souls from hell? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:8 | And now I ask of you, my brethren, were they destroyed? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:9 | And again I ask, were the bands of death broken, and the chains of hell which encircled them about, were they loosed? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:10 | And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:10 | Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:10 | What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death, yea, and also the chains of hell? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:11 | Behold, I can tell you—did not my father Alma believe in the words which were delivered by the mouth of Abinadi? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:11 | And was he not a holy prophet? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:11 | Did he not speak the words of God, and my father Alma believe them? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:14 | And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:14 | Have ye received his image in your countenances? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:14 | Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:15 | Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:15 | Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:16 | I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:17 | Or do ye imagine to yourselves that ye can lie unto the Lord in that day, and say—Lord, our works have been righteous works upon the face of the earth—and that he will save you? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:18 | Or otherwise, can ye imagine yourselves brought before the tribunal of God with your souls filled with guilt and remorse, having a remembrance of all your guilt, yea, a perfect remembrance of all your wickedness, yea, a remembrance that ye have set at defiance the commandments of God? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:19 | I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:19 | I say unto you, can you look up, having the image of God engraven upon your countenances? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:20 | I say unto you, can ye think of being saved when you have yielded yourselves to become subjects to the devil? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:22 | And now I ask of you, my brethren, how will any of you feel, if ye shall stand before the bar of God, having your garments stained with blood and all manner of filthiness? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:22 | Behold, what will these things testify against you? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:23 | Behold will they not testify that ye are murderers, yea, and also that ye are guilty of all manner of wickedness? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:24 | Behold, my brethren, do ye suppose that such an one can have a place to sit down in the kingdom of God, with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, and also all the holy prophets, whose garments are cleansed and are spotless, pure and white? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:26 | And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:27 | Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:27 | Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:27 | That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:28 | Behold, are ye stripped of pride? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:29 | Behold, I say, is there one among you who is not stripped of envy? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:30 | And again I say unto you, is there one among you that doth make a mock of his brother, or that heapeth upon him persecutions? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:39 | And now if ye are not the sheep of the good shepherd, of what fold are ye? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:39 | Behold, I say unto you, that the devil is your shepherd, and ye are of his fold; and now, who can deny this? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:45 | Do ye not suppose that I know of these things myself? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:45 | And how do ye suppose that I know of their surety? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:53 | And now my beloved brethren, I say unto you, can ye withstand these sayings; yea, can ye lay aside these things, and trample the Holy One under your feet; yea, can ye be puffed up in the pride of your hearts; yea, will ye still persist in the wearing of costly apparel and setting your hearts upon the vain things of the world, upon your riches? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:55 | Yea, and will you persist in turning your backs upon the poor, and the needy, and in withholding your substance from them? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:58 | And now, my brethren, what have ye to say against this? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:59 | For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep doth not watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 5:59 | And behold, if a wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? | Alma the younger | people of Zarahemla | rhetorical |
Alma 7:17 | And now my beloved brethren, do you believe these things? | Alma the younger | people of Gideon | inquiry |
Alma 8:19 | Will ye give to an humble servant of God something to eat? | Alma the younger | Amulek | inquiry |
Alma 9:2 | Who art thou? | people of Ammonihah | Alma the younger | contentious |
Alma 9:2 | Suppose ye that we shall believe the testimony of one man, although he should preach unto us that the earth should pass away? | people of Ammonihah | Alma the younger | contentious |
Alma 9:6 | Who is God, that sendeth no more authority than one man among this people, to declare unto them the truth of such great and marvelous things? | people of Ammonihah | Alma the younger | contentious |
Alma 9:9 | Do ye not remember that our father, Lehi, was brought out of Jerusalem by the hand of God? | Alma the younger | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 9:9 | Do ye not remember that they were all led by him through the wilderness? | Alma the younger | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 9:10 | And have ye forgotten so soon how many times he delivered our fathers out of the hands of their enemies, and preserved them from being destroyed, even by the hands of their own brethren? | Alma the younger | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 9:13 | Behold, do ye not remember the words which he spake unto Lehi, saying that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper in the land? | Alma the younger | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 9:24 | For behold, the promises of the Lord are extended to the Lamanites, but they are not unto you if ye transgress; for has not the Lord expressly promised and firmly decreed, that if ye will rebel against him that ye shall utterly be destroyed from off the face of the earth? | Alma the younger | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 10:25 | O ye wicked and perverse generation, why hath Satan got such great hold upon your hearts? | Amulek | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 10:25 | Why will ye yield yourselves unto him that he may have power over you, to blind your eyes, that ye will not understand the words which are spoken, according to their truth? | Amulek | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 10:26 | For behold, have I testified against your law? | Amulek | people of Ammonihah | contentious |
Alma 11:21 | Will ye answer me a few questions which I shall ask you? | Zeezrom | Amulek | inquiry |
Alma 11:21 | Will ye answer the questions which I shall put unto you? | Zeezrom | Amulek | inquiry |
Alma 11:23 | O thou child of hell, why tempt ye me? | Amulek | Zeezrom | contentious |
Alma 11:23 | Knowest thou that the righteous yieldeth to no such temptations? | Amulek | Zeezrom | contentious |
Alma 11:24 | Believest thou that there is no God? | Amulek | Zeezrom | contentious |
Alma 11:26 | Thou sayest there is a true and living God? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 11:28 | Is there more than one God? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 11:30 | How knowest thou these things? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 11:32 | Who is he that shall come? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 11:32 | Is it the Son of God? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 11:34 | Shall he save his people in their sins? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 11:37 | And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven? | Amulek | Zeezrom | contentious |
Alma 11:38 | Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father? | Zeezrom | Amulek | contentious |
Alma 12:8 | What does this mean which Amulek hath spoken concerning the resurrection of the dead, that all shall rise from the dead, both the just and the unjust, and are brought to stand before God to be judged according to their works? | Zeezrom | Alma the younger | inquiry |
Alma 12:20 | What is this that thou hast said, that man should rise from the dead and be changed from this mortal to an immortal state, that the soul can never die? | Antionah | Alma the younger | inquiry |
Alma 12:21 | What does the scripture mean, which saith that God placed cherubim and a flaming sword on the east of the garden of Eden, lest our first parents should enter and partake of the fruit of the tree of life, and live forever? | Antionah | Alma the younger | contentious |
Alma 14:7 | Art thou also possessed with the devil? | people of Ammonihah | Zeezrom | contentious |
Alma 14:10 | How can we witness this awful scene? | Amulek | Alma the younger | rhetorical |
Alma 14:14 | After what ye have seen, will ye preach again unto this people, that they shall be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone? | chief judge of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:15 | What say ye for yourselves? | chief judge of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:19 | Why do ye not answer the words of this people? | chief judge of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:19 | Know ye not that I have power to deliver you up unto the flames? | chief judge of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:20 | Will ye stand again and judge this people, and condemn our law? | people of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:20 | If ye have such great power why do ye not deliver yourselves? | people of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:21 | How shall we look when we are damned? | people of Ammonihah | Alma and Amulek | contentious |
Alma 14:26 | How long shall we suffer these great afflictions, O Lord? | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 15:6 | Believest thou in the power of Christ unto salvation? | Alma the younger | Zeezrom | inquiry |
Alma 18:2 | Behold, is not this the Great Spirit who doth send such great punishments upon this people, because of their murders? | servants of king Lamoni | Lamoni | rhetorical |
Alma 18:8 | Where is this man that has such great power? | Lamoni | servants of king Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:14 | What wilt thou that I should do for thee, O king? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:15 | What desirest thou of me? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:16 | Is it because thou hast heard that I defended thy servants and thy flocks, and slew seven of their brethren with the sling and with the sword, and smote off the arms of others, in order to defend thy flocks and thy servants; behold, is it this that causeth thy marvelings? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:17 | I say unto you, what is it, that thy marvelings are so great? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:18 | Who art thou? | Lamoni | Ammon | inquiry |
Alma 18:18 | Art thou that Great Spirit, who knows all things? | Lamoni | Ammon | inquiry |
Alma 18:20 | How knowest thou the thoughts of my heart? | Lamoni | Ammon | inquiry |
Alma 18:22 | Wilt thou hearken unto my words, if I tell thee by what power I do these things? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:24 | Believest thou that there is a God? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:26 | Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:28 | Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in the earth? | Ammon | Lamoni | inquiry |
Alma 18:31 | Is it above the earth? | Lamoni | Ammon | inquiry |
Alma 18:33 | Art thou sent from God? | Lamoni | Ammon | inquiry |
Alma 19:9 | Believest thou this? | Ammon | Lamoni’s wife | inquiry |
Alma 20:4 | Who told thee that thy brethren were in prison? | Lamoni | Ammon | inquiry |
Alma 20:9 | Why did ye not come to the feast on that great day when I made a feast unto my sons, and unto my people? | Lamohi’s father | Lamoni | contentious |
Alma 20:10 | Whither art thou going with this Nephite, who is one of the children of a liar? | Lamohi’s father | Lamoni | contentious |
Alma 21:5 | What is that thou hast testified? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:5 | Hast thou seen an angel? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:5 | Why do not angels appear unto us? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:5 | Behold are not this people as good as thy people? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:6 | How knowest thou the thought and intent of our hearts? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:6 | How knowest thou that we have cause to repent? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:6 | How knowest thou that we are not a righteous people? | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | Aaron | contentious |
Alma 21:7 | Believest thou that the Son of God shall come to redeem mankind from their sins? | Aaron | an Amalekite in Jerusalem | inquiry |
Alma 22:5 | What is this that ye have said concerning the Spirit of the Lord? | Lamohi’s father | Aaron | inquiry |
Alma 22:6 | And also, what is this that Ammon said—If ye will repent ye shall be saved, and if ye will not repent, ye shall be cast off at the last day? | Lamohi’s father | Aaron | inquiry |
Alma 22:7 | Believest thou that there is a God? | Aaron | Lamoni’s father | inquiry |
Alma 22:9 | Is God that Great Spirit that brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem? | Lamohi’s father | Aaron | inquiry |
Alma 22:10 | Believest thou this? | Aaron | Lamoni’s father | inquiry |
Alma 22:15 | What shall I do that I may have this eternal life of which thou hast spoken? | Lamohi’s father | Aaron | inquiry |
Alma 22:15 | Yea, what shall I do that I may be born of God, having this wicked spirit rooted out of my breast, and receive his Spirit, that I may be filled with joy, that I may not be cast off at the last day? | Lamohi’s father | Aaron | inquiry |
Alma 22:20 | Why commandest thou that we should slay these men, when behold one of them is mightier than us all? | king’s servants | king’s wife | rhetorical |
Alma 26:1 | My brothers and my brethren, behold I say unto you, how great reason have we to rejoice; for could we have supposed when we started from the land of Zarahemla that God would have granted unto us such great blessings? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:2 | And now, I ask, what great blessings has he bestowed upon us? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:2 | Can ye tell? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:13 | Behold, how many thousands of our brethren has he loosed from the pains of hell; and they are brought to sing redeeming love, and this because of the power of his word which is in us, therefore have we not great reason to rejoice? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:16 | Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:16 | Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:17 | Who could have supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and polluted state? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:19 | Oh then, why did he not consign us to an awful destruction, yea, why did he not let the sword of his justice fall upon us, and doom us to eternal despair? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:21 | And now behold, my brethren, what natural man is there that knoweth these things? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:23 | Now do ye remember, my brethren, that we said unto our brethren in the land of Zarahemla, we go up to the land of Nephi, to preach unto our brethren, the Lamanites, and they laughed us to scorn? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:24 | Do ye suppose that ye can bring the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth? | brethren in Zarahemla | sons of Mosiah | rhetorical |
Alma 26:24 | Do ye suppose that ye can convince the Lamanites of the incorrectness of the traditions of their fathers, as stiffnecked a people as they are; whose hearts delight in the shedding of blood; whose days have been spent in the grossest iniquity; whose ways have been the ways of a transgressor from the beginning? | brethren in Zarahemla | sons of Mosiah | rhetorical |
Alma 26:31 | Now behold, we can look forth and see the fruits of our labors; and are they few? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:33 | And now behold I say unto you, has there been so great love in all the land? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 26:35 | Now have we not reason to rejoice? | Ammon | his brethren | rhetorical |
Alma 27:7 | I will go and inquire of the Lord, and if he say unto us, go down unto our brethren, will ye go? | Ammon | king Anti-Nephi-Lehi | inquiry |
Alma 27:18 | Now was not this exceeding joy? | Mormon | none | rhetorical |
Alma 29:6 | Now, seeing that I know these things, why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called? | Alma the younger | self | rhetorical |
Alma 29:7 | Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could speak unto all the ends of the earth? | Alma the younger | self | rhetorical |
Alma 30:13 | O ye that are bound down under a foolish and a vain hope, why do ye yoke yourselves with such foolish things? | Korihor | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Alma 30:13 | Why do ye look for a Christ? | Korihor | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Alma 30:15 | How do ye know of their surety? | Korihor | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Alma 30:22 | Why do ye go about perverting the ways of the Lord? | high priest of Gideon | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:22 | Why do ye teach this people that there shall be no Christ, to interrupt their rejoicings? | high priest of Gideon | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:22 | Why do ye speak against all the prophecies of the holy prophets? | high priest of Gideon | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:34 | And now, if we do not receive anything for our labors in the church, what doth it profit us to labor in the church save it were to declare the truth, that we may have rejoicings in the joy of our brethren? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:35 | Then why sayest thou that we preach unto this people to get gain, when thou, of thyself, knowest that we receive no gain? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:35 | And now, believest thou that we deceive this people, that causes such joy in their hearts? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:37 | Believest thou that there is a God? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:39 | Will ye deny again that there is a God, and also deny the Christ? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:40 | And now what evidence have ye that there is no God, or that Christ cometh not? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:41 | But, behold, I have all things as a testimony that these things are true; and ye also have all things as a testimony unto you that they are true; and will ye deny them? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:41 | Believest thou that these things are true? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:44 | Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:44 | Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:45 | And yet do ye go about, leading away the hearts of this people, testifying unto them there is no God? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:45 | And yet will ye deny against all these witnesses? | Alma the younger | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:51 | Art thou convinced of the power of God? | chief judge (Nephihah) | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:51 | In whom did ye desire that Alma should show forth his sign? | chief judge (Nephihah) | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:51 | Would ye that he should afflict others, to show unto thee a sign? | chief judge (Nephihah) | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 30:51 | Behold, he has showed unto you a sign; and now will ye dispute more? | chief judge (Nephihah) | Korihor | contentious |
Alma 31:26 | O, how long, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that thy servants shall dwell here below in the flesh, to behold such gross wickedness among the children of men? | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:30 | O Lord God, how long wilt thou suffer that such wickedness and infidelity shall be among this people? | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:30 | O Lord, wilt thou give me strength, that I may bear with mine infirmities. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:31 | O Lord, my heart is exceedingly sorrowful; wilt thou comfort my soul in Christ. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:31 | O Lord, wilt thou grant unto me that I may have strength, that I may suffer with patience these afflictions which shall come upon me, because of the iniquity of this people. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:32 | O Lord, wilt thou comfort my soul, and give unto me success, and also my fellow laborers who are with me—yea, Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and also Amulek and Zeezrom, and also my two sons—yea, even all these wilt thou comfort, O Lord. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:32 | Yea, wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:33 | Wilt thou grant unto them that they may have strength, that they may bear their afflictions which shall come upon them because of the iniquities of this people. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 31:34 | O Lord, wilt thou grant unto us that we may have success in bringing them again unto thee in Christ. | Alma the younger | Lord | prayer |
Alma 32:5 | Behold, what shall these my brethren do, for they are despised of all men because of their poverty, yea, and more especially by our priests; for they have cast us out of our synagogues which we have labored abundantly to build with our own hands; and they have cast us out because of our exceeding poverty; and we have no place to worship our God; and behold, what shall we do? | poor man of Zoramites | Alma the younger | inquiry |
Alma 32:9 | What shall we do? | poor man of Zoramites (quoted by Alma the Younger) | Alma the younger | inquiry |
Alma 32:10 | Behold I say unto you, do ye suppose that ye cannot worship God save it be in your synagogues only? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:11 | And moreover, I would ask, do ye suppose that ye must not worship God only once in a week? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:14 | And now, as I said unto you, that because ye were compelled to be humble ye were blessed, do ye not suppose that they are more blessed who truly humble themselves because of the word? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:18 | Now I ask, is this faith? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:19 | And now, how much more cursed is he that knoweth the will of God and doeth it not, than he that only believeth, or only hath cause to believe, and falleth into transgression? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:29 | Now behold, would not this increase your faith? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:30 | And now, behold, will not this strengthen your faith? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:31 | And now, behold, are ye sure that this is a good seed? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:34 | And now, behold, is your knowledge perfect? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:35 | O then, is not this real? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 32:35 | I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge perfect? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 33:3 | Do ye remember to have read what Zenos, the prophet of old, has said concerning prayer or worship? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 33:12 | Do ye believe those scriptures which have been written by them of old? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 33:14 | Now behold, my brethren, I would ask if ye have read the scriptures? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 33:14 | If ye have, how can ye disbelieve on the Son of God? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 33:21 | O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish? | Alma the younger | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 34:11 | Now, if a man murdereth, behold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother? | Amulek | poor Zoramites | rhetorical |
Alma 37:10 | And who knoweth but what they will be the means of bringing many thousands of them, yea, and also many thousands of our stiffnecked brethren, the Nephites, who are now hardening their hearts in sin and iniquities, to the knowledge of their Redeemer? | Alma the younger | Helaman | rhetorical |
Alma 37:45 | And now I say, is there not a type in this thing? | Alma the younger | Helaman | rhetorical |
Alma 39:1 | And now, my son, I have somewhat more to say unto thee than what I said unto thy brother; for behold, have ye not observed the steadiness of thy brother, his faithfulness, and his diligence in keeping the commandments of God? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 39:1 | Behold, has he not set a good example for thee? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 39:5 | Know ye not, my son, that these things are an abomination in the sight of the Lord; yea, most abominable above all sins save it be the shedding of innocent blood or denying the Holy Ghost? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 39:17 | Behold, I say unto you, is not a soul at this time as precious unto God as a soul will be at the time of his coming? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 39:18 | Is it not as necessary that the plan of redemption should be made known unto this people as well as unto their children? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 39:19 | Is it not as easy at this time for the Lord to send his angel to declare these glad tidings unto us as unto our children, or as after the time of his coming? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 40:7 | And now I would inquire what becometh of the souls of men from this time of death to the time appointed for the resurrection? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 41:12 | And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration to take a thing of a natural state and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 42:17 | Now, how could a man repent except he should sin? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 42:17 | How could he sin if there was no law? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 42:17 | How could there be a law save there was a punishment? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 42:19 | Now, if there was no law given—if a man murdered he should die—would he be afraid he would die if he should murder? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 42:21 | And if there was no law given, if men sinned what could justice do, or mercy either, for they would have no claim upon the creature? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 42:25 | What, do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? | Alma the younger | Corianton | rhetorical |
Alma 45:2 | Believest thou the words which I spake unto thee concerning those records which have been kept? | Alma the younger | Helaman | inquiry |
Alma 45:4 | Believest thou in Jesus Christ, who shall come? | Alma the younger | Helaman | inquiry |
Alma 45:6 | Will ye keep my commandments? | Alma the younger | Helaman | inquiry |
Alma 46:27 | And now who knoweth but what the remnant of the seed of Joseph, which shall perish as his garment, are those who have dissented from us? | Captain Moroni | Nephites | rhetorical |
Alma 47:34 | They have fled; does not this testify against them? | servants of Amalickiah | queen of Lamanites | rhetorical |
Alma 54:22 | And if it so be that there is a devil and a hell, behold will he not send you there to dwell with my brother whom ye have murdered, whom ye have hinted that he hath gone to such a place? | Ammoron | Captain Moroni | contentious |
Alma 56:44 | Therefore what say ye, my sons, will ye go against them to battle? | Helaman | stripling warriors | inquiry |
Alma 60:7 | Can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of thoughtless stupor, while your enemies are spreading the work of death around you? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:11 | Behold, could ye suppose that ye could sit upon your thrones, and because of the exceeding goodness of God ye could do nothing and he would deliver you? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:12 | Do ye suppose that, because so many of your brethren have been killed it is because of their wickedness? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:18 | But why should I say much concerning this matter? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:19 | Or is it that ye have neglected us because ye are in the heart of our country and ye are surrounded by security, that ye do not cause food to be sent unto us, and also men to strengthen our armies? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:20 | Have ye forgotten the commandments of the Lord your God? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:20 | Yea, have ye forgotten the captivity of our fathers? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:20 | Have ye forgotten the many times we have been delivered out of the hands of our enemies? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:21 | Or do ye suppose that the Lord will still deliver us, while we sit upon our thrones and do not make use of the means which the Lord has provided for us? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:22 | Yea, will ye sit in idleness while ye are surrounded with thousands of those, yea, and tens of thousands, who do also sit in idleness, while there are thousands round about in the borders of the land who are falling by the sword, yea, wounded and bleeding? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:23 | Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Alma 60:32 | Behold, can you suppose that the Lord will spare you and come out in judgment against the Lamanites, when it is the tradition of their fathers that has caused their hatred, yea, and it has been redoubled by those who have dissented from us, while your iniquity is for the cause of your love of glory and the vain things of the world? | Captain Moroni | Pahoran | contentious |
Helaman 5:38 | Behold, what do all these things mean, and who is it with whom these men do converse? | Aminidab | Lamanites | inquiry |
Helaman 5:40 | What shall we do, that this cloud of darkness may be removed from overshadowing us? | Aminidab | Lamanites | inquiry |
Helaman 7:13 | Behold, why have ye gathered yourselves together? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | inquiry |
Helaman 7:13 | That I may tell you of your iniquities? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 7:16 | Yea, how could you have given way to the enticing of him who is seeking to hurl away your souls down to everlasting misery and endless wo? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 7:16 | Why will ye die? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 7:17 | Why has he forsaken you? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 7:20 | O, how could you have forgotten your God in the very day that he has delivered you? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:1 | Why do ye not seize upon this man and bring him forth, that he may be condemned according to the crime which he has done? | judges | Nephi II | contentious |
Helaman 8:2 | Why seest thou this man, and hearest him revile against this people and against our law? | judges | Nephi II | contentious |
Helaman 8:5 | Why do you suffer this man to revile against us? | judges | Nephi II | contentious |
Helaman 8:11 | Behold, my brethren, have ye not read that God gave power unto one man, even Moses, to smite upon the waters of the Red Sea, and they parted hither and thither, insomuch that the Israelites, who were our fathers, came through upon dry ground, and the waters closed upon the armies of the Egyptians and swallowed them up? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:12 | And now behold, if God gave unto this man such power, then why should ye dispute among yourselves, and say that he hath given unto me no power whereby I may know concerning the judgments that shall come upon you except ye repent? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:14 | Yea, did he not bear record that the Son of God should come? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:20 | O then why not the Son of God come, according to his prophecy? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:21 | And now will you dispute that Jerusalem was destroyed? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:21 | Will ye say that the sons of Zedekiah were not slain, all except it were Mulek? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 8:21 | Yea, and do ye not behold that the seed of Zedekiah are with us, and they were driven out of the land of Jerusalem? | Nephi II | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 9:12 | Where are the five who were sent to inquire concerning the chief judge whether he was dead? | judges | people of Zarahemla | inquiry |
Helaman 9:20 | Thou art confederate; who is this man that hath done this murder? | judges | Nephi II | contentious |
Helaman 9:21 | O ye fools, ye uncircumcised of heart, ye blind, and ye stiffnecked people, do ye know how long the Lord your God will suffer you that ye shall go on in this your way of sin? | Nephi II | judges | contentious |
Helaman 9:27 | Has Nephi, the pretended prophet, who doth prophesy so much evil concerning this people, agreed with thee, in the which ye have murdered Seezoram, who is your brother? | Nephites | Seantum | inquiry |
Helaman 9:29 | Have ye murdered your brother? | Nephites | Seantum | inquiry |
Helaman 9:32 | From whence cometh this blood? | Nephites | Seantum | inquiry |
Helaman 9:32 | Do we not know that it is the blood of your brother? | Nephites | Seantum | rhetorical |
Helaman 11:16 | And now, O Lord, wilt thou turn away thine anger, and try again if they will serve thee? | Nephi II | Lord | prayer |
Helaman 13:29 | O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you? | Samuel the Lamanite | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 13:29 | Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides? | Samuel the Lamanite | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 13:29 | Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light? | Samuel the Lamanite | people of Zarahemla | contentious |
Helaman 13:37 | O Lord, canst thou not turn away thine anger from us? | people of Zarahemla | Lord | prayer |
Helaman 16:18 | That it is not reasonable that such a being as a Christ shall come; if so, and he be the Son of God, the Father of heaven and of earth, as it has been spoken, why will he not show himself unto us as well as unto them who shall be at Jerusalem? | Nephites and Lamanites | none | contentious |
Helaman 16:19 | Yea, why will he not show himself in this land as well as in the land of Jerusalem? | Nephites and Lamanites | none | contentious |
3 Nephi 9:13 | O all ye that are spared because ye were more righteous than they, will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you? | Jesus | Nephites | inquiry |
3 Nephi 10:17 | And behold, are not we a remnant of the seed of Joseph? | Mormon | reader | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 10:17 | And these things which testify of us, are they not written upon the plates of brass which our father Lehi brought out of Jerusalem? | Mormon | reader | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 12:13 | Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the salt of the earth; but if the salt shall lose its savor wherewith shall the earth be salted? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 12:15 | Behold, do men light a candle and put it under a bushel? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 12:26 | And while ye are in prison can ye pay even one senine? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:25 | Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:26 | Are ye not much better than they? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:27 | Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:28 | And why take ye thought for raiment? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:31 | Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? | twelve disciples | none | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:31 | What shall we drink? | twelve disciples | none | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 13:31 | Wherewithal shall we be clothed? | twelve disciples | none | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:3 | And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:4 | Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me pull the mote out of thine eye—and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:9 | Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:10 | Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:11 | If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:16 | Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? | Jesus | Nephites | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 14:22 | Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works? | many | Jesus | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 17:7 | Have ye any that are sick among you? | Jesus | Nephites | inquiry |
3 Nephi 17:7 | Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? | Jesus | Nephites | inquiry |
3 Nephi 23:9 | Was it not so? | Jesus | Nephites | inquiry |
3 Nephi 23:11 | How be it that ye have not written this thing, that many saints did arise and appear unto many and did minister unto them? | Jesus | Nephites | inquiry |
3 Nephi 24:2 | But who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth? | Malachi | House of Israel | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 24:7 | Wherein shall we return? | House of Israel | Lord | contentious |
3 Nephi 24:8 | Will a man rob God? | Lord | House of Israel | contentious |
3 Nephi 24:8 | Wherein have we robbed thee? | House of Israel | Lord | contentious |
3 Nephi 24:13 | What have we spoken against thee? | House of Israel | Lord | contentious |
3 Nephi 24:14 | It is vain to serve God, and what doth it profit that we have kept his ordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? | House of Israel | Lord | contentious |
3 Nephi 27:2 | What will ye that I shall give unto you? | Lord | twelve disciples | inquiry |
3 Nephi 27:4 | Verily, verily, I say unto you, why is it that the people should murmur and dispute because of this thing? | Lord | twelve disciples | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 27:5 | Have they not read the scriptures, which say ye must take upon you the name of Christ, which is my name? | Lord | twelve disciples | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 27:8 | And how be it my church save it be called in my name? | Lord | twelve disciples | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 27:27 | Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? | Lord | twelve disciples | rhetorical |
3 Nephi 28:1 | What is it that ye desire of me, after that I am gone to the Father? | Lord | twelve disciples | inquiry |
3 Nephi 28:4 | What will ye that I should do unto you, when I am gone unto the Father? | Lord | 3 Nephites | inquiry |
3 Nephi 28:35 | For do ye suppose that ye can get rid of the justice of an offended God, who hath been trampled under feet of men, that thereby salvation might come? | Mormon | reader | rhetorical |
Mormon 5:22 | And then, O ye Gentiles, how can ye stand before the power of God, except ye shall repent and turn from your evil ways? | Mormon | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 5:23 | Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God? | Mormon | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 5:23 | Know ye not that he hath all power, and at his great command the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll? | Mormon | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 6:17 | O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! | Mormon | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mormon 6:17 | O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you! | Mormon | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mormon 6:19 | O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have fallen! | Mormon | Nephites | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:33 | O ye wicked and perverse and stiffnecked people, why have ye built up churches unto yourselves to get gain? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:33 | Why have ye transfigured the holy word of God, that ye might bring damnation upon your souls? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:38 | O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:38 | Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:38 | Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:39 | Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 8:40 | Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads? | Moroni | Gentiles | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:2 | Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation—behold, when the Lord shall come, yea, even that great day when the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, yea, in that great day when ye shall be brought to stand before the Lamb of God—then will ye say that there is no God? | Moroni | “those who do not believe in Christ” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:3 | Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of God? | Moroni | “those who do not believe in Christ” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:3 | Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness of your guilt? | Moroni | “those who do not believe in Christ” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:3 | Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws? | Moroni | “those who do not believe in Christ” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:9 | For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing? | Moroni | “those who deny the revelations of God” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:15 | And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have all these things passed, of which I have spoken? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:15 | Has the end come yet? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:16 | Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in our eyes? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:16 | Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous works of God? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:17 | Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by his word the heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his word man was created of the dust of the earth; and by the power of his word have miracles been wrought? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:18 | And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many mighty miracles? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:19 | And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:26 | And now, behold, who can stand against the works of the Lord? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:26 | Who can deny his sayings? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:26 | Who will rise up against the almighty power of the Lord? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:26 | Who will despise the works of the Lord? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Mormon 9:26 | Who will despise the children of Christ? | Moroni | “all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles” | rhetorical |
Ether 1:38 | And who knoweth but the Lord will carry us forth into a land which is choice above all the earth? | Jared | Brother of Jared | rhetorical |
Ether 2:19 | And behold, O Lord, in them there is no light; whither shall we steer? | Brother of Jared | Lord | prayer |
Ether 2:22 | Behold, O Lord, wilt thou suffer that we shall cross this great water in darkness? | Brother of Jared | Lord | prayer |
Ether 2:23 | What will ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels? | Lord | Brother of Jared | inquiry |
Ether 2:25 | Therefore what will ye that I should prepare for you that ye may have light when ye are swallowed up in the depths of the sea? | Lord | Brother of Jared | inquiry |
Ether 3:7 | Arise, why hast thou fallen? | Lord | Brother of Jared | inquiry |
Ether 3:9 | Sawest thou more than this? | Lord | Brother of Jared | inquiry |
Ether 3:11 | Believest thou the words which I shall speak? | Lord | Brother of Jared | inquiry |
Ether 3:15 | Seest thou that ye are created after mine own image? | Lord | Brother of Jared | rhetorical |
Ether 8:9 | Whereby hath my father so much sorrow? | daughter of Jared | Jared | inquiry |
Ether 8:9 | Hath he not read the record which our fathers brought across the great deep? | daughter of Jared | Jared | rhetorical |
Ether 8:9 | Behold, is there not an account concerning them of old, that they by their secret plans did obtain kingdoms and great glory? | daughter of Jared | Jared | rhetorical |
Ether 8:13 | Will ye swear unto me that ye will be faithful unto me in the thing which I shall desire of you? | Akish | kinsfolk of Akish | inquiry |
Ether 14:18 | Who can stand before the army of Shiz? | Jaredites | none | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:20 | And now, my brethren, how is it possible that ye can lay hold upon every good thing? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:27 | Wherefore, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased because Christ hath ascended into heaven, and hath sat down on the right hand of God, to claim of the Father his rights of mercy which he hath upon the children of men? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:29 | And because he hath done this, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:35 | And now, my beloved brethren, if this be the case that these things are true which I have spoken unto you, and God will show unto you, with power and great glory at the last day, that they are true, and if they are true has the day of miracles ceased? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:36 | Or have angels ceased to appear unto the children of men? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:36 | Or has he withheld the power of the Holy Ghost from them? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:36 | Or will he, so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or there shall be one man upon the face thereof to be saved? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:40 | How is it that ye can attain unto faith, save ye shall have hope? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 7:41 | And what is it that ye shall hope for? | Mormon | “beloved brethren” | rhetorical |
Moroni 9:11-14 | 11 O my beloved son, how can a people like this, that are without civilization—
12 (And only a few years have passed away, and they were a civil and a delightsome people) 13 But O my son, how can a people like this, whose delight is in so much abomination— 14 How can we expect that God will stay his hand in judgment against us? |
Mormon | Moroni | rhetorical |
Moroni 10:27 | Did I not declare my words unto you, which were written by this man, like as one crying from the dead, yea, even as one speaking out of the dust? | Lord | “all the ends of the earth” | rhetorical |