RLDS Verse Context
Inspired Version, 1908 Book of Mormon, DC 1-144
DC 85:20a - DC 85:23a
20a Behold, I will hasten my work in its time; and I give unto you who are the first laborers in this last kingdom, a commandment, that you assemble yourselves together, and organize yourselves, and prepare yourselves; and sanctify yourselves;
20b yea, purify your hearts, and cleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I may make you clean;
20c that I may testify unto your Father, and your God, and my God, that you are clean from the blood of this wicked generation, that I may fulfill this promise, this great and last promise which I have made unto you, when I will.
21a Also, I give unto you a commandment, that ye shall continue in prayer and fasting from this time forth.
21b And I give unto you a commandment, that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom; teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that is expedient for you to understand;
21c of things both in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth; things which have been; things which are; things which must shortly come to pass;
21d things which are at home; things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations; and the judgments which are on the land;
21e and a knowledge also of countries, and of kingdoms, that ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again, to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you.
22a Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned, to warn his neighbor; therefore, they are left without excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads.
22b He that seeketh me early shall find me, and shall not be forsaken.
23a Therefore, tarry ye, and labor diligently, that you may be perfected in your ministry, to go forth among the Gentiles for the last time, as many as the mouth of the Lord shall name, to bind up the law, and seal up the testimony, and to prepare the Saints for the hour of judgment, which is to come;
20b yea, purify your hearts, and cleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I may make you clean;
20c that I may testify unto your Father, and your God, and my God, that you are clean from the blood of this wicked generation, that I may fulfill this promise, this great and last promise which I have made unto you, when I will.
21a Also, I give unto you a commandment, that ye shall continue in prayer and fasting from this time forth.
21b And I give unto you a commandment, that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom; teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that is expedient for you to understand;
21c of things both in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth; things which have been; things which are; things which must shortly come to pass;
21d things which are at home; things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations; and the judgments which are on the land;
21e and a knowledge also of countries, and of kingdoms, that ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again, to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you.
22a Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned, to warn his neighbor; therefore, they are left without excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads.
22b He that seeketh me early shall find me, and shall not be forsaken.
23a Therefore, tarry ye, and labor diligently, that you may be perfected in your ministry, to go forth among the Gentiles for the last time, as many as the mouth of the Lord shall name, to bind up the law, and seal up the testimony, and to prepare the Saints for the hour of judgment, which is to come;