RLDS Verse Context

23a And the bishop, Newel K. Whitney, also, should travel round about and among all the churches, searching after the poor, to administer to their wants by humbling the rich and the proud;

23b he should also employ an agent to take charge and to do his secular business, as he shall direct;

23c nevertheless, let the bishop go unto the city of New York, and also to the city of Albany, and also to the city of Boston, and warn the people of those cities with the sound of the gospel, with a loud voice, of the desolation and utter abolishment which awaits them if they do reject these things;

23d for if they do reject these things, the hour of their judgment is nigh, and their house shall be left unto them desolate.

23e Let him trust in me, and he shall not be confounded, and an hair of his head shall not fall to the ground unnoticed.

24a And verily I say unto you, the rest of my servants, Go ye forth as your circumstances shall permit, in your several callings, unto the great and notable cities and villages, reproving the world in righteousness, of all their unrighteous and ungodly deeds, setting forth clearly and understandingly the desolation of abomination in the last days;

24b for with you, saith the Lord Almighty, I will rend their kingdoms; I will not only shake the earth, but the starry heavens shall tremble;

24c for I, the Lord, have put forth my hand to exert the powers of heaven; ye can not see it now, yet a little while and ye shall see it, and know that I am, and that I will come and reign with my people. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Amen.

Intro: SECTION 84 An inspired exposition of the parable of the wheat and tares received by Joseph Smith, Jr., December 6, 1832, at Kirtland, Ohio.

1a Verily thus saith the Lord unto you, my servants, concerning the parable of the wheat and of the tares:

1b Behold, verily I say that the field was the world, and the apostles were the sowers of the seed;