1. Let there be a place provided, as soon as it is possible, for the family of thy counselor and scribe, even Frederick G.   90:19
  2. Let your families be small.   90:25
  3. I, the Lord, will contend with Zion ... until she overcomes and is clean.   90:36
  4. Thus saith the Lord unto you concerning the Apocrypha ... it is not needful that the Apocrypha should be translated.   91:1
  5. Every man whose spirit receiveth not the light is under condemnation.   93:32
  6. Man is the tabernacle of God, even temples; and whatsoever temple is defiled, God shall destroy that temple.   93:35
  7. Now a commandment I give unto you .   93:43
  8. Joseph Smith, Jun.   93:47
  9. Your family must needs repent and forsake some things, and give more earnest heed unto your sayings, or be removed out of their place.   93:48
  10. What I say unto one I say unto all.   93:49
  11. Newel K.   93:50
  12. Joseph Smith, Jun.   93:52
  13. Hasten to translate my scriptures ... Amen.   93:53
  14. Ye shall not suffer any unclean thing to come in unto it; and my glory shall be there, and my presence shall be there.   94:8
  15. If there shall come into it any unclean thing, my glory shall not be there; and my presence shall not come into it.   94:9
  16. The second lot on the south shall be dedicated unto me for the building of a house unto me, for the work of the printing of the translation of my scriptures.   94:10
  17. And now I give unto you no more at this time.   94:7
  18. Ye must needs be chastened ... for ye have sinned against me a very grievous sin, in that ye have not considered the great commandment ... the building of mine house.   95:2
  19. Prune my vineyard for the last time, that I may bring to pass my strange act, that I may pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.   95:4
  20. I gave unto you a commandment that you should build a house.   95:8
  21. Contentions arose in the school of the prophets.   95:10
  22. You should build a house.   95:11
  23. Here is wisdom, and the mind of the Lord ... let it be built after the manner which I shall show unto three of you, whom ye shall appoint and ordain unto this power ... the size thereof shall be fifty and five feet in width, and let it be sixty.   95:13
  24. Son Ahman; or, in other words, Alphus; or, in other words, Omegus; even Jesus Christ your Lord.   95:17
  25. Here is wisdom ... this stake ... should be made strong.   96:1
  26. Let ... Newel K.   96:2
  27. It is wisdom ... that ... John Johnson ... become a member of the order.   96:6
  28. Therefore ye shall ordain him ... Amen.   96:9
  29. I, the Lord, am well pleased that there should be a school in Zion, and also with my servant Parley P.   97:3
  30. Tt is my will that a house should be built unto me in the land of Zion ... by the tithing of my people.   97:10
  31. Inasmuch as my people build a house unto me in the name of the Lord, and do not suffer any unclean thing to come into it ... my glory shall rest upon it.   97:15
  32. But if it be defiled I will not come into it, and my glory shall not be there.   97:17
  33. If Zion do these things she shall prosper, and spread herself and become very glorious, very great, and very terrible.   97:18
  34. And the nations of the earth shall honor her, and shall say: Surely Zion is the city of our God.   97:19
  35. Vengeance cometh speedily upon the ungodly.   97:22
  36. The Lord's scourge ... shall vex all people; yea, it shall not be stayed until the Lord come.   97:23
  37. Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things whatsoever I have commanded her.   97:25
  38. Read this once to her ears ... Amen.   97:27
  39. I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land.   98:6
  40. As pertaining to law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil.   98:7
  41. Renounce war and proclaim peace ... lest I come and smite the whole earth with a curse, and all flesh be consumed before me.   98:17
  42. Nevertheless, thine enemy is in thine hands; and if thou rewardest him according to his works thou art justified; if he has sought thy life, and thy life is endangered by him, thine enemy is in thine hands and thou art justified.   98:31
  43. I, the Lord, would fight their battles, and their children's battles, and their children's children's, until they had avenged themselves on all their enemies, to the third and fourth generation.   98:37
  44. I, the Lord, will avenge thee of thine enemy an hundred.   98:45
  45. Thus saith the Lord unto my servant John Murdock .   99:1
  46. Whoso rejecteth you shall be rejected of my Father and his house; and you shall cleanse your feet in the secret places.   99:4
  47. I come quickly to judgment, to convince all of their ungodly deeds which they have committed against me, as it is written of me in the volume of the book.   99:5
  48. After a few years, if thou desirest of me, thou mayest go up also unto the goodly land ... Otherwise thou shalt continue proclaiming my gospel until thou be taken.   99:7
  49. Concerning your brethren who have been afflicted ... I, the Lord, have suffered the affliction to come upon them, wherewith they have been afflicted, in consequence of their transgressions.   101:1
  50. I will own them, and they shall be mine in that day when I shall come to make up my jewels.   101:3
  51. They must needs be chastened and tried, even as Abraham, who was commanded to offer up his only son.   101:4
  52. They were slow to listen to me, so I'm slow to answer their prayers.   101:7
  53. But my bowels are filled with compassion for them.   101:9
  54.  Mine indignation is soon to be poured out without measure upon all nations; and this will I do when the cup of their iniquity is full.   101:11
  55. In that day all who are found upon the watch.   101:12
  56. All flesh is in mine hand.   101:16
  57. I have other places which ... shall be called stakes, for the curtains or the strength of Zion.   101:21
  58. When the veil of the covering of my temple, in my tabernacle, which hideth the earth, shall be taken off, and all flesh shall see me together.   101:23
  59. Every corruptible thing, both of man, or of the beasts of the field, or of the fowls of the heavens, or of the fish of the sea, that dwells upon all the face of the earth, shall be consumed.   101:24
  60. Also that of element shall melt with fervent heat; and all things shall become new.   101:25
  61. Get ye straightway unto my land; break down the walls of mine enemies; throw down their tower, and scatter their watchmen.   101:57
  62. The time of harvest is come,.   101:64
  63. I must gather together my people, according to the parable of the wheat and the tares.   101:65
  64. Purchase all the lands with money, which can be purchased for money, in the region round about the land which I have appointed to be the land of Zion,.   101:70
  65. All the land which can be purchased in Jackson county, and the counties round about, and leave the residue in mine hand.   101:71
  66. Let all the churches gather together all their moneys ... in this way they may establish Zion.   101:72
  67. According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be established.   101:77
  68. It is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another.   101:79
  69. I established the Constitution of this land.   101:80
  70. If the president heed them not, then will the Lord arise and come forth out of his hiding place, and in his fury vex the nation.   101:89
  71. [The Lord] will cut off those wicked, unfaithful, and unjust stewards, and appoint them their portion among hypocrites, and unbelievers; Even in outer darkness, where there is weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.   101:90
  72. That I may proceed to bring to pass my act, my strange act, and perform my work, my strange work, that men may discern between the righteous and the wicked, saith your God.   101:95
  73. It is contrary to my commandment and my will that my servant Sidney Gilbert should sell my storehouse.   101:96
  74. The president of the church, who is also the president of the council, is appointed by revelation,.   102:9
  75. In case of difficulty respecting doctrine or principle, if there is not a sufficiency written to make the case clear to the minds of the council, the president may inquire and obtain the mind of the Lord by revelation.   102:23
  76. Being driven and smitten by the hands of mine enemies, on whom I will pour out my wrath without measure in mine own time.   103:2
  77. I have suffered them thus far, that they might fill up the measure of their iniquities, that their cup might be full.   103:3
  78. Those who call themselves after my name might be chastened for a little season with a sore and grievous chastisement, because they did not hearken altogether unto the precepts and commandments which I gave unto them.   103:4
  79. I have decreed it, begin to prevail against mine enemies from this very hour.   103:6
  80. But inasmuch as they keep not my commandments, and hearken not to observe all my words, the kingdoms of the world shall prevail against them.   103:8
  81. The redemption of Zion must needs come by power.   103:15
  82. I will raise up unto my people a man, who shall lead them like as Moses.   103:16
  83. By hearkening to observe all the words which I, the Lord their God, shall speak unto them, they shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the world are subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to possess it forever and ever.   103:7
  84. By hearkening to observe all the words which I, the Lord their God, shall speak unto them, they shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the world are subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to possess it forever and ever.   103:21
  85. Let my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.   103:22
  86. Let all the churches send up wise men with their moneys, and purchase lands even as I have commanded them.   103:23
  87. Inasmuch as mine enemies come against you to drive you from my goodly land, which I have consecrated to be the land of Zion, even from your own lands after these testimonies, which ye have brought before me against them, ye shall curse them;.   103:24
  88. Whomsoever ye curse, I will curse, and ye shall avenge me of mine enemies.   103:25
  89. My presence shall be with you even in avenging me of mine enemies, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.   103:26
  90. Let no man be afraid to lay down his life for my sake.   103:27
  91. Whoso is not willing to lay down his life for my sake is not my disciple.   103:28
  92. Pray earnestly that peradventure my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.   103:35
  93. Inasmuch as any man belonging to the order shall be found a transgressor, or, in other words, shall break the covenant with which ye are bound, he shall be cursed in his life, and shall be trodden down by whom I will.   104:6
  94. Inasmuch as you are found transgressors, you cannot escape my wrath in your lives.   104:8
  95. If any man among you, of the order, is found a transgressor and repenteth not of the evil, that ye shall deliver him over unto the buffetings of Satan.   104:10
  96. If any man shall take of the abundance which I have made, and impart not his portion, according to the law of my gospel, unto the poor and the needy, he shall, with the wicked, lift up his eyes in hell, being in torment.   104:18
  97. You are dissolved as a united order.   104:53
  98. All these properties are mine.   104:56
  99. This shall be called the sacred treasury of the Lord.   104:66
  100. You receive moneys, by hundreds, or by fifties, or by twenties, or by tens, or by fives.   104:68
  101. Or in other words, if any man among you obtain five dollars let him cast them into the treasury; or if he obtain ten, or twenty, or fifty, or an hundred, let him do likewise.   104:69
  102. Write speedily to New York and write according to that which shall be dictated by my Spirit; and I will soften the hearts of those to whom you are in debt.   104:81
  103. You obtain a chance to loan money by hundreds, or thousands, even until you shall loan enough to deliver yourself from bondage, it is your privilege.   104:84
  104. I will fight your battles.   105:14
  105. The destroyer I have sent forth to destroy and lay waste mine enemies.   105:15
  106. I have commanded my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.   105:16
  107. I will soften the hearts of the people ... until my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.   105:27
  108. Wise men ... I have commanded concerning the purchasing of all the lands in Jackson county that can be purchased, and in the adjoining counties round about.   105:28
  109. I will hold the armies of Israel guiltless in taking possession of their own lands, which they have previously purchased with their moneys, and of throwing down the towers of mine enemies that may be upon them, and scattering their watchmen, and avenging me of mine enemies unto the third and fourth generation.   105:30
  110. But first let my army become very great ... that her banners may be terrible unto all nations.   105:31
  111. That the kingdoms of this world may be constrained to acknowledge that the kingdom of Zion is in very deed the kingdom of our God and his Christ; therefore, let us become subject unto her laws.   105:32
  112. The coming of the Lord draweth nigh ... Therefore, gird up your loins.   106:4
  113. There was joy in heaven when my servant Warren bowed to my scepter.   106:6
  114. I will have mercy on him; and, notwithstanding the vanity of his heart.   106:7
  115. I have prepared a crown for him in the mansions of my Father.   106:8
  116. Warren A.   106:1
  117. Before his [Melchizedek's] day it was called the Holy Priesthood, after the Order of the Son of God.   107:3
  118. But out of respect or reverence to the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent repetition of his name, they, the church, in ancient days, called that priesthood after Melchizedek, or the Melchizedek Priesthood.   107:4
  119. There are two ... grand heads—one is the Melchizedek Priesthood, and the other is the Aaronic or Levitical Priesthood.   107:6
  120. No man has a legal right to this office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a literal descendant of Aaron.   107:16
  121. This priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son, and rightly belongs to the literal descendants of the chosen seed.   107:40
  122. This order was instituted in the days of Adam.   107:41
  123. Seth, who was ordained by Adam at the age of sixty.   107:42
  124. He (Seth) was a perfect man, and his likeness was the express likeness of his father, insomuch that he seemed to be like unto his father in all things, and could be distinguished from him only by his age.   107:43
  125. Enos was ordained at the age of one hundred and thirty.   107:44
  126. Cainan ... was eighty.   107:45
  127. Mahalaleel was four hundred and ninety.   107:46
  128. Jared was two hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam.   107:47
  129. Enoch was twenty.   107:48
  130. He [Enoch] walked with God three hundred and sixty.   107:49
  131. Methuselah was one hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam.   107:50
  132. Lamech was thirty.   107:51
  133. Noah was ten years old when he was ordained under the hand of Methuselah.   107:52
  134. Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah ... into the valley of Adam.   107:53
  135. The Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel.   107:54
  136. These things were all written in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time.   107:57
  137. The President of the office of the High Priesthood is to preside over the whole church, and to be like unto Moses.   107:91
  138. Behold, here is wisdom; yea, to be a seer, a revelator, a translator, and a prophet,.   107:92
  139. The seventh president of these presidents is to preside over the six.   107:94
  140. These seven presidents are to choose other seventy besides the first seventy to whom they belong, and are to preside over them.   107:95
  141. And also other seventy, until seven times seventy.   107:96
  142. These seventy are to be traveling ministers, unto the Gentiles first and also unto the Jews.   107:97
  143. We saw the Lord standing upon the breastwork of the pulpit, before us; and under his feet was a paved work of pure gold, in color like amber.   110:2
  144. Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north.   110:11
  145. Elias appeared, ... saying that in us and our seed all generations after us should be blessed.   110:12
  146. Another great and glorious vision burst upon us; for Elijah ... and said: Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi—testifying that he [Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.   110:13
  147. The great and dreadful day of the Lord is near.   110:16
  148. If they shall smite this people thou wilt smite them; thou wilt fight for thy people.   109:28
  149. We know that thou hast spoken by the mouth of they prophets terrible things concerning the wicked, in the last days.   109:45
  150. Deliver thy people from the calamity of the wicked ... against the day of burning.   109:46
  151. Bare thine arm, O Lord ... may thine anger be kindled, and thine indignation fall upon them, that they may be wasted away.   109:51
  152. O Lord, remember thy servant, Joseph Smith, Jun.   109:68
  153. When the trump shall sound for the dead, we shall be caught up in the cloud to meet thee.   109:75
  154. That our garments may be pure ... Amen, and amen.   109:76
  155. I have much treasure in this city for you.   111:2
  156. Form acquaintance with men in this city ... as it shall be given you.   111:3
  157. In due time that I will give this city into your hands, that you shall have power over it, insomuch that they shall not discover your secret parts; and its wealth pertaining to gold and silver shall be yours.   111:4
  158. Concern not yourselves about your debts, for I will give you power to pay them.   111:5
  159. You ... shall be signalized unto you by the peace and power of my Spirit, that shall flow unto you.   111:8
  160. There are more treasures than one for you in this city.   111:10
  161. Be ye as wise as serpents and yet without sin; and I will order all things for your good, as fast as ye are able to receive them.   111:11
  162. Gird up thy loins ... Let thy feet be shod.   112:7
  163. Rebel not against my servant Joseph; for ... the keys which I have given unto him ... shall not be taken from him till I come.   112:15
  164. Thou [Thomas B.   112:17
  165. Whosoever receiveth me, receiveth those, the First Presidency.   112:20
  166. Whosoever ye shall send in my name, by the voice of your brethren, the Twelve ... shall have power to open the door of my kingdom.   112:21
  167. Darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face.   112:23
  168. Vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth.   112:24
  169. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not, and is not baptized, shall be damned.   112:29
  170. Cleanse your hearts and your garments, lest the blood of this generation be required at your hands.   112:33
  171. I come quickly ... Amen.   112:34
  172. Thus shall my church be called in the last days, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter.   115:4
  173. Let the city, Far West, be a holy and consecrated land unto me; and it shall be called most holy, for the ground upon which thou standest is holy.   115:7
  174. Let not my servant Joseph, neither my servant Sidney, neither my servant Hyrum, get in debt any more for the building of a house unto my name.   115:13
  175. It is my will that the city of Far West should be built up speedily.   115:17
  176. I will be with him [Joseph Smith], and I will sanctify him before the people; for unto him have I given the keys of this kingdom and ministry.   115:19
  177. Spring Hill is named by the Lord Adam.   116:1
  178. Is there not room enough on the mountains of Adam.   117:8
  179. Let my servant Newel K.   117:11
  180. Oliver Granger; behold, verily I say unto him that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation, forever and ever.   117:12
  181. This shall be the beginning of the tithing of my people.   119:3
  182. Those who have thus been tithed shall pay one.   119:4
  183. All those who gather unto the land of Zion shall be tithed of their surplus properties, and shall observe this law, or they shall not be found worthy to abide among you.   119:5
  184. How long ... before ... thy bowels be moved with compassion toward them?.   121:3
  185. Let thine anger be kindled against our enemies; and, in the fury of thine heart, with thy sword avenge us.   121:5
  186. And not many years hence, that they and their posterity shall be swept from under heaven, saith God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall.   121:16
  187. It had been better for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea.   121:22
  188. A generation of vipers shall not escape the damnation of hell.   121:23
  189. God shall give unto you knowledge by his Holy Spirit ... that has not been revealed since the world was until now;.   121:26
  190. A time to come in the which nothing shall be withheld, whether there be one God or many gods, they shall be manifest.   121:28
  191. The Council of the Eternal God of all other gods before this world was.   121:32
  192. Let thy bowels also be full of charity.   121:45
  193. Make a solemn proclamation ... to all the kings of the world ... to all the kings of the world ... to the honorable president.   124:2
  194. I may visit them in the day of visitation, when I shall unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the oppressor among hypocrites, where there is gnashing of teeth, if they reject my servants and my testimony.   124:8
  195. O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help of my people, to the house of the daughters of Zion.   124:11
  196. I will bless him [Robert B.   124:13
  197. John C.   124:16
  198. Lyman Wight ... shall beget glory and honor to himself and unto my name.   124:18
  199. When he [Lyman Wight] shall finish his work I may receive him unto myself, even as I did my servant David Patten, who is with me at this time, and also my servant Edward Partridge, and also my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen.   124:19

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