For those of us addicted to being on-line ~ we can still study scriptures - one available site that is easy to use: www.lds.org - then click on prepare a lesson / scriptures - then you can click on old or new testament (they use the King James version) - select a chapter and there you are - then there are underlined topics that can be clicked to show cross-references to other verses on the same topic.
New Testament
Romans 15: 4 For whatsoever things were awritten aforetime were bwritten for our clearning, that we through dpatience and comfort of the escriptures might have fhope.
I looked under hope - here was a reference - not sure why it is included - doesn't mention the word hope, but I like it.
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10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and
that there be no
adivisions among you; but
that ye be perfectly joined together in the same
bmind and in the same judgment.
Ye must press forward, having a perfect brightness of hope,
2 Ne. 31: 20
If ye have faith, ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true, (
Heb. 11: 1). Hope comes of faith and maketh an anchor to the soul, (
Heb. 6: 17-19). The Holy Ghost fills you with hope, (
Rom. 15: 13).
I like this scripture - actually - this is the scripture that showed up my door this morning by a Jehovah's Witness who was canvassing the neighborhood on the bright & very cold day. To me, it is not just about writings that are cannonized scripture but writing by people in general - authors writing to people of the future (even a not too distant future) and strangers - unknown people - it is their way of touching us or of us touching others.
Writing is how we homo sapiens pass along our learning, so that each of us doesn't have to learn from scratch. A great deal of information we pass along ~ & now the internet - information passing to the max. So, now we have to sort out true information from fanciful or deceitful information and discern how to use it. . . .
