7  O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my ^awords do good to him that walketh uprightly?

  5  And now, as the preaching of the ^bword had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.

  26  For because of the ^aword which he has imparted unto me, behold, many have been born of God, and have tasted as I have tasted, and have seen eye to eye as I have seen; therefore they do know of these things of which I have spoken, as I do know; and the knowledge which I have is of God.

  29  Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the ^aword of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—