7  And he took the book of the covenant, and ^bread in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

  5  ^aSo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

  17  So then faith cometh by ^bhearing, and hearing by the word of God.

  23  And there was nothing save it was exceeding harshness, preaching and prophesying of wars, and contentions, and destructions, and continually reminding them of death, and the duration of eternity, and the judgments and the power of God, and all these things—stirring them up ^dcontinually to keep them in the fear of the Lord. I say there was nothing short of these things, and exceedingly great plainness of speech, would keep them from going down speedily to destruction. And after this manner do I write concerning them.

  19  And this he did that he himself might go forth among his people, or among the people of Nephi, that he might preach the ^cword of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them.

  11  And it came to pass, when the king had heard the ^awords of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

  12  For the ^aword of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

  8  And it supposeth me that they have come up hither to hear the pleasing ^aword of God, yea, the word which healeth the wounded soul.

  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.

  12  And it came to pass that by so doing they kept them from being destroyed upon the face of the land; for they did ^bprick their hearts with the word, continually stirring them up unto repentance.