1 Nephi 3:15-20

I’ve recently started reading the Book of Mormon and my first thought was perhaps to put 1 Nephi 3:7 as my first scripture here, but decided on one I liked better from my reading thus far today.

1 Nephi 3:15-20

  15 But behold I said unto them that: As the Lord liveth, and as we live, we will not go down unto our father in the wilderness until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath commanded us.

  16 Wherefore, let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; therefore let us go down to the land of our father’s inheritance, for behold he left gold and silver, and all manner of riches. And all this he hath done because of the commandments of the Lord.

  17 For he knew that Jerusalem must be destroyed, because of the wickedness of the people.

  18 For behold, they have rejected the words of the prophets. Wherefore, if my father should dwell in the land after he hath been commanded to flee out of the land, behold, he would also perish. Wherefore, it must needs be that he flee out of the land.

  19 And behold, it is wisdom in God that we should obtain these records, that we may preserve unto our children the language of our fathers;

  20 And also that we may preserve unto them the words which have been spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets, which have been delivered unto them by the Spirit and power of God, since the world began, even down unto this present time.

I really got to thinking about verse 16, about Nephi telling his brothers that they needed to be faithful in keeping the commandments.  I’m grateful that Nephi did as Heavenly Father commanded so that I might  be able to read the Book of Mormon today.