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Christ Ordains the Apostles via LDS Media Library
Moroni 2:3
KnoWhy #249
December 9, 2016
Why Did Moroni Keep Writing?
Image by Normandy Poulter and the Virtual Scriptures Group.
Moroni 3:1–3
KnoWhy #587
December 1, 2020
Why Did Moroni Provide the Exact Wording of Priesthood Ordinances?
The Sacrament via LDS Media Library
Moroni 4:1
KnoWhy #250
December 12, 2016
Where did Moroni Get the Sacramental Prayers from?
Two Oxhyrhynchus Didache Fragments via bricecjones.com
Moroni 6:5
KnoWhy #450
July 17, 2018
What Can an Ancient Christian Text Tell us About the Book of Mormon?
Mormon Tabernacle Choir via LDS Meddia Library
Moroni 6:9
KnoWhy #251
December 13, 2016
Why Was Singing Hymns a Part of Nephite Worship Services?
Jorge Cocco Collage
Moroni 7:6
KnoWhy #252
December 14, 2016
Why Should People Study the Same Scriptures Over and Over Again?
I Saw Another Angel Fly by Jorge Cocco
Moroni 7:29
KnoWhy #425
April 17, 2018
What Does Mormon Teach Us about Ministering as Angels?
Image by Book of Mormon Central
Moroni 7:45, 7:47–48
KnoWhy #361
September 5, 2017
What Does It Really Mean to Have Charity?
Image by Book of Mormon Central
Moroni 7:45, 7:47–48
KnoWhy #361
September 5, 2017
What Does It Really Mean to Have Charity?
Newborn Sleeping via LDS Media Library
Moroni 8:12
KnoWhy #253
December 15, 2016
Why Did Moroni Include Mormon’s Condemnation of Infant Baptism?
"Ultimas Paginas (2)" by Jorge Cocco
Moroni 9:1
KnoWhy #477
October 18, 2018
When Did Mormon Write His Letter Recorded in Moroni 9?
Moroni by Normandy Poulter and the BYU Virtual Scriptures Group.
Moroni 10:2
KnoWhy #588
December 15, 2020
Why Did Moroni Conclude with So Many Exhortations?
Image by Book of Mormon Central
Moroni 10:4–5
KnoWhy #359
August 30, 2017
How Important Was It to Moroni that We Pray about the Book of Mormon?
Scriptures in a Garden via LDS Media Library
Moroni 10:4
KnoWhy #254
December 16, 2016
How Will God Manifest the Truth of the Book of Mormon?
Sell That Thou Hast via LDS Media Library
Moroni 10:6
KnoWhy #499
January 24, 2019
What Does It Really Mean to Be a Good Person?
Shakers dance via Wikimedia Commons
Moroni 10:8
KnoWhy #299
April 12, 2017
How Did the Book of Mormon Help the Early Saints Understand Spiritual Gifts?
“Mormon Abridging the Plates” via LDS Media Library
Moroni 10:27
KnoWhy #480
October 30, 2018
Why Is the Book of Mormon’s Historical Authenticity So Important?
“Whom Do Men Say That I the Son of Man Am?” via Gospel Media Library
Moroni 10:32
KnoWhy #517
May 23, 2019
What Does It Mean to Love God with “All Thy Mind”?
Jorge Cocco's painting, "The Rock and the Sand," depicting Jesus' parable of the house built on the rock and the house built on sand.
Luke 6:47–48, Matthew 7:24–25
KnoWhy #659
February 21, 2023
How Can We Build Our Foundations on a Rock?
Jesus Christ reads Isaiah 61 in the synagogue. Image from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bible Videos
Isaiah 61:1–2, Luke 4:18–19
KnoWhy #656
January 31, 2023
Why Does Jesus Announce that Isaiah 61:1–2 Is Fulfilled?
Jorge Cocco's painting, "The Rock and the Sand," depicting Jesus' parable of the house built on the rock and the house built on sand.
Luke 6:47–48, Matthew 7:24–25
KnoWhy #659
February 21, 2023
How Can We Build Our Foundations on a Rock?
Portrait of Martin Harris colorized by Bryce M. Haymond. Martin Harris's baptism certificate courtesy of Trace Mayer.
Doctrine and Covenants 5:26
KnoWhy #607
June 3, 2021
Why Did Martin Harris Come Back to the Church?
Portrait of Martin Harris by Lewis A. Ramsay. One dollar bank note of the Kirtland Safety Society.
Doctrine and Covenants 5:32
KnoWhy #606
June 1, 2021
Why Was Martin Harris Cut Off from the Church?
Image by Scott G Winterton via Deseret News.
Doctrine and Covenants 6:1
KnoWhy #593
January 26, 2021
Why Were So Many Sections in the Doctrine and Covenants Revealed during the Days When the Book of Mormon Was Being Translated?
Portrait of Joseph Knight. Artist Unknown.
Doctrine and Covenants 12:6
KnoWhy #595
February 9, 2021
How Was the Joseph Knight Family Important to Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon?
Photograph of David Whitmer.
Doctrine and Covenants 14:8
KnoWhy #609
June 10, 2021
Why Did David Whitmer Never Return to the Church?
Castle at Tuloom by Frederick Catherwood. Image via Archive.org
Doctrine and Covenants 17:1
KnoWhy #596
February 16, 2021
Why Did the Lord Command the Three Witnesses to Rely upon His Word?
The Book of Mormon with a Grandin Printing Press replica at the Crandall Printing Museum. Image by Daniel Smith.
Doctrine and Covenants 19:26
KnoWhy #597
February 25, 2021
Why Was Martin Harris Needed to Pay for the Printing of the Book of Mormon?
The Rise of the Church of Christ in These Last Days by Robert T. Barrett. Image via Church of Jesus Christ.
Doctrine and Covenants 20:1
KnoWhy #598
March 2, 2021
How Did the Establishment of Jesus Christ’s Church in 1830 Comply with the Law?
Portrait of Oliver Cowdery. Landscape of Far West by Al Rounds.
Doctrine and Covenants 20:3
KnoWhy #603
May 11, 2021
Why Was Oliver Cowdery Excommunicated from the Church?
Portrait of Emma Hale Smith. Oil on canvas, David Rogers, 1842. Image via the Joseph Smith Papers.
Doctrine and Covenants 25:5–6
KnoWhy #625
November 30, 2021
Why Did Emma Smith Remain in Nauvoo after the Death of Joseph Smith?
Portrait of Sidney Rigdon with the manuscript of D&C 76 from The Joseph Smith Papers.
Doctrine and Covenants 35:3
KnoWhy #601
April 13, 2021
What Converted Sidney Rigdon to the Book of Mormon?