villavia.blogg.se - Search lds scriptures

Individual members are entitled to divine revelation for confirmation of truths, gaining knowledge or wisdom, meeting personal challenges, and so forth. Under the LDS Church's doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe in the principle of revelation from God to his children.

2.2 Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

Additions can be made to the scriptural canon with the "common consent" of the church's membership. The scriptural canon is "open" due to the Latter-day Saint belief in continuous revelation. Current editions of the standard works include a number of non-canonical study aids, including a Bible dictionary, photographs, maps and gazetteer, topical guide, index, footnotes, cross references, and excerpts from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

The standard works are printed and distributed by the church both in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination. The Pearl of Great Price (containing the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith–Matthew, Joseph Smith–History, and the Articles of Faith).The Book of Mormon, subtitled since 1981 "Another Testament of Jesus Christ".The Holy Bible (King James version) (other versions of the Bible are used in non-English-speaking countries).The four books of the standard works are: The standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon.

Scripture Tools created and maintained by Samuel Bradshaw.Quadruple Combination format of the Standard Works Scripture Study: Study the scriptures in two or more languages side-by-side.Random Scripture: Go to a random scripture in the standard works.Scripture Lookup: Look up a verse of scripture in any language and generate scripture URLs.Magazines and Periodicals: Find information about magazines and other periodicals the Church has published.Language Availability: See which scripture collections are available in various languages.Statistics: See how many chapters and verses each book of scripture has.Standard Works: An overview of the Latter-day Saint canon of scripture.When paragraphs or headings refer to an entire book or group of chapters, they are counted as paragraphs or headings in the first chapter of the book or chapter group.These added headings are usually printed in italics. “Headings” refers to chapter summaries and other explanatory paragraphs added inline as study helps in the Latter-day Saint editions of the scriptures (not including footnotes or book/chapter titles).“Paragraphs” refers to headers, footers, or other paragraphs that aren’t numbered as verses, but are part of the translated scripture text.Non-KJV translations of the Bible, in English or other languages, sometimes have slightly different chapter or verse numbers (usually within one chapter or verse sometimes two).Number of books, chapters, verses, and paragraphs should be consistent across all editions of the King James Bible however, headings will vary in different editions. The Latter-day Saint edition of the Bible in English is the King James Version, with footnotes and study helps.Statistics are from the 2013 edition of the standard works in English.These charts show statistics for each collection and scripture book in the Latter-day Saint standard works. Scriptures Statistics Scripture Resources