That ... my saints, may be baptized for those who are dead. 124:29
I command you, all ye my saints, to build a house unto me ... your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable unto me; and if you do not these things at the end of the appointment ye shall be rejected as a church, with your dead. 124:31
After you have had sufficient time to build a house to me, wherein the ordinance of baptizing for the dead belongeth, and for which the same was instituted from before the foundation of the world, your baptisms for your dead cannot be acceptable unto me ... after this time, your baptisms for the dead, by those who are scattered abroad, are not acceptable unto me,. 124:33
It is ordained that in Zion, and in her stakes, and in Jerusalem, those places which I have appointed for refuge, shall be the places for your baptisms for your dead. 124:36
Your anointings, and your washings, and your baptisms for the dead, and your solemn assemblies, and your memorials for your sacrifices by the sons of Levi, and for your oracles in your most holy places wherein you receive conversations, and your statutes and judgments, for the beginning of the revelations and foundation of Zion, and for the glory, honor, and endowment of all her municipals, are ordained by the ordinance of my holy house. 124:39
I deign to reveal unto my church things which have been kept hid from before the foundation of the world. 124:41
I will show unto my servant Joseph all things pertaining to this house ... ye shall build it on ... the spot which I have chosen ... If ye labor with all your might, I will consecrate that spot that it shall be made holy. 124:41
Instead of blessings, ye, by your own works, bring cursings, wrath, indignation, and judgments upon your own heads, by your follies, and by all your abominations. 124:48
I will visit upon the heads of those who hindered my work, unto the third and fourth generation. 124:50
I will answer judgment, wrath, and indignation, wailing, and anguish, and gnashing of teeth upon their heads, unto the third and fourth generation. 124:52
And again, verily I say unto you, I command you again to build a house to my name, even in this place. 124:55
Let my servant Joseph and his house have place therein, from generation to generation. 124:56
I put upon his head, that his blessing shall also be put upon the head of his posterity after him. 124:57
Joseph: In thee and in thy seed shall the kindred of the earth be blessed. 124:58
Let my servant Joseph and his seed after him have place in that house, from generation to generation, forever and ever. 124:60
They shall not receive less than fifty dollars for a share of stock in that house, and they shall be permitted to receive fifteen thousand dollars from any one man for stock in that house. 124:64
I, the Lord, will build up Kirtland, but I, the Lord, have a scourge prepared for the inhabitants thereof. 124:83
Almon Babbitt ... setteth up a golden calf for the worship of my people. 124:84
Let my servant William [Law] put his trust in me, and cease to fear concerning his family, because of the sickness of the land. 124:87
Let [William Law] him from henceforth hearken to the counsel of my servant Joseph, and with his interest support the cause of the poor, and publish the new translation of my holy word ... If he will do this I will bless him with a multiplicity of blessings, that he shall not be forsaken, nor his seed be found begging bread. 124:89
That whoever he [Hyrum Smith] blesses shall be blessed, and whoever he curses shall be cursed; that whatsoever he shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever he shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 124:93
From this time forth I appoint unto him [Hyrum Smith] that he may be a prophet, and a seer, and a revelator unto my church, as well as my servant Joseph. 124:94
He [Hyrum Smith] shall receive counsel from my servant Joseph, who shall show unto him the keys whereby he may ask and receive, and be crowned with the same blessing, and glory, and honor, and priesthood, and gifts of the priesthood, that once were put upon him that was my servant Oliver Cowdery. 124:95
William Law ... hall heal the sick, he shall cast out devils, and shall be delivered from those who would administer unto him deadly poison ... he shall be led in paths where the poisonous serpent cannot lay hold upon his heel ... and ... he should raise the dead. 124:97
Let him [Sidney Rigdon] lift up his voice as with the sound of a trump, and warn the inhabitants of the earth to flee the wrath to come. 124:106
Let no man pay stock to the quorum of the Nauvoo House unless he shall be a believer in the Book of Mormon ... For that which is more or less than this cometh of evil, and shall be attended with cursings and not blessings. 124:119
I give unto you my servant Brigham Young to be a president over the Twelve. 124:127
Which Twelve hold the keys to open up the authority of my kingdom upon the four corners of the earth, and after that to send my word to every creature. 124:128
The Lord has revealed unto me [Joseph Smith] that my enemies, both in Missouri and this State, were again in the pursuit of me ... I have thought it expedient and wisdom in me to leave the place for a short season ... When I learn that the storm is fully blown over, then I will return. 127:1
I shall triumph over all my enemies, for the Lord God hath spoken it. 127:2
God ...will mete out a just recompense of reward upon the heads of all their oppressors. 127:3
When any of you are baptized for your dead, let there be a recorder, and let him be eye. 127:6
The enemy is on the alert, and ... the prince of this world cometh. 127:11
I subscribe myself your servant in the Lord, prophet and seer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter. 127:12
I stated to you in my letter before I left my place, that I would write to you from time to time and give you information in relation to many subjects, I now resume the subject of the baptism for the dead. 128:1
Jesus Christ, wherein it is granted that whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 128:8
The baptismal font was instituted as a similitude of the grave. 128:13
For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect. 128:15
I will give you another quotation of Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:29: Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?. 128:16
