Mormon 9:3 Textual Variants

The original text had your in the phrase “with a consciousness of your guilt”. The 1837 edition accidentally dropped the your. The 1908 RLDS edition restored it, as will the critical text.

The expression “a consciousness of your guilt” occurs earlier in this verse and is followed by the similar “a consciousness of your filthiness” in the next verse. In both cases, the your has not been removed:

• Mormon 9:3
  • do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness of your guilt
• Mormon 9:4
  • behold I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and a just God under a consciousness of your filthiness before him

There are also two other occurrences of this phraseology in Alma. In every case, there is a determiner before guilt:

• Alma 12:1
  • and seeing that he began to tremble under a consciousness of his guilt …
• Alma 14:6
  • and his soul began to be harrowed up under a consciousness of his own guilt