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… [5] and after thou hast sowed thy fields
and secured them, go speedily unto the church which is in Colesville, Fayette,
and Manchester, and they shall support thee; and I will bless them both
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D&C
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[6] But if they receive thee not, I will send upon
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[8] And it shall be given
thee in the very moment what thou shalt speak and write, [9]
and they shall hear it, or I will send unto them a cursing instead
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Dust and cleanse feet |
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[25] And in whatsoever place ye
shall enter, and they receive you not in my name, ye shall leave a cursing
instead of a blessing, by casting off the dust of your feet against them
as a testimony, and cleansing your feet by the wayside. |
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| Legal opponents to be cursed by law |
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[27] And whosoever shall go to law
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No curse on it when Lord comes |
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And I hold forth and deign to give unto you greater riches, even a land
of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey, upon which there shall be
no curse when the Lord cometh; |
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Hearken and hear oh ye my people saith your
Lord and your God ye whom I delight to bless with the greatest blessings
ye that hear me and ye that hear me not will I curse that have professed
my name with the heaviest of all cursings |
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waters |
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Behold, I, the
Lord, in the beginning blessed the waters; but in the last days, by the
mouth of my servant John, I cursed the waters. |
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D&C 61, August [11 or 12], 1831.
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last days |
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And, as I, the Lord, in the beginning
cursed the land, even so in the last days have I blessed it, in its time,
for the use of my saints, that they may partake the fatness thereof. |
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And 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; |
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103, February 24, 1834. |
| I will curse them |
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And whomsoever ye curse, I will curse, and ye
shall avenge me of mine enemies. |
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And my presence shall be with you even in avenging me of mine enemies,
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. |
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But inasmuch as they were not faithful they were nigh unto cursing. |
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1834.
they: unidentified members of the United
Firm
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Some broke covenant
Cursed |
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Therefore, inasmuch as some of my servants have not
kept the commandment, but have broken the covenant by
through covetousness, and with feigned words,
I have cursed them with a very sore and grievous curse. |
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For I, the Lord, have decreed in my heart, that inasmuch as any man belonging
to the Firm 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; |
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… whomsoever he blesseth they shall be blessed; whomsoever
he curseth they shall be cursed; and when his enemies seek him unto his
hurt, and destruction, let him rise up and curse, and the hand of God shall
be upon his enemies in judgment, they shall be utterly confounded and brought
to desolation; |
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Joseph
Smith Blesses Newel K. Whitney |
| Indians cursed—wild and savage |
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And cause that the remnants of Jacob, who have been cursed and smitten
because of their transgression, be converted from their wild and savage
condition to the fulness of the everlasting gospel; |
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¶ D&C
109, March 27, 1836. |
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Feet Washing
Punishments Observed
Beliefs & Practices
Joseph Smith
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