Section 56: Selected Verses
- Mine anger is kindled against the rebellious, and they shall know mine arm and mine indignation, in the day of visitation and of wrath upon the nations. 56:1
- He that will not take up his cross and follow me, and keep my commandments, the same shall not be saved. 56:2
- He that will not obey shall be cut off in mine own due time. 56:3
- I, the Lord, command and revoke, as it seemeth me good; and all this to be answered upon the heads of the rebellious, saith the Lord. 56:4
- I revoke the commandment which was given unto my servants Thomas B. Marsh and Ezra Thayre, and give a new commandment unto my servant Thomas, that he shall take up his journey speedily to the land of Missouri, and my servant Selah J. Griffin shall also go with him. 56:5
- I revoke the commandment which was given unto my servants Selah J. Griffin and Newel Knight, in consequence of the stiffneckedness of my people which are in Thompson, and their rebellions. 56:6
- Ezra Thayre must repent of his pride, and of his selfishness, and obey the former commandment which I have given him. 56:8
- Otherwise he shall receive the money which he has paid, and shall leave the place, and shall be cut off out of my church, saith the Lord God of hosts; And though the heaven and the earth pass away, these words shall not pass away. 56:10-11
- If my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., must needs pay the money, behold, I, the Lord, will pay it unto him again in the land of Missouri. 56:12
- Repent ... because you seek to counsel in your own ways. 56:14
- Wo unto you rich men, that will not give your substance to the poor. 56:16
- Wo unto you poor men ... whose bellies are not satisfied ... and who will not labor with your own hands! 56:17
- And now I make an end of speaking unto you. Even so. Amen. 56:20