D&C 136:8 - Scripture Study Tools and Resources

D&C 136:8

8 Let each company ^abear an equal proportion, according to the dividend of their property, in taking the poor, the ^bwidows, the ^cfatherless, and the families of those who have gone into the army, that the cries of the widow and the ^dfatherless come not up into the ears of the Lord against this people.

Footnotes ?

a D&C 38:24 (24-27)

24 And let every man esteem his brother as himself, and practice virtue and holiness before me.

b TG Poor

b TG Widows

c Ps. 68:5

5 A father of the ^afatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

c Ps. 146:9 (1-10)

9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the ^afatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

c James 1:27 (25-27)

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the ^cfatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

d 3 Ne. 24:5

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the ^efatherless, and that turn aside the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts.

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Citation ?

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2007
(D&C 136:1-42)

Earl C. Tingey, GC, Apr. 2000
(D&C 136:8)

Dallin H. Oaks, GC, Oct. 1997
(D&C 136:8)

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Word Frequency ?


This Verse	Nearby Verses		This Chapter

WORD		QTY
let		14
not		13
lord		12
all		10
if		8
company		7
go		7
people		7
god		7
may		6
will		6
out		5
servants		5
captains		5
each		4
even		4
one		4
enemies		4
another		4
into		4
glory		3
prepare		3
might		3
diligent		3
can		3
zion		3
upon		3
israel		3
neighbor		3
bear		3
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