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The Doctrine and Covenants is a collection of divine revelations and inspired declarations given for the establishment and regulation of the kingdom of God on the earth in the last days.
- Doctrine and Covenants 1
The Doctrine and Covenants. Section 1. Revelation given...
- Introduction
The Doctrine and Covenants is a collection of divine...
- Title Page
Doctrine and Covenants 137. Doctrine and Covenants 138....
- Official Declaration 2
Doctrine and Covenants 135. Doctrine and Covenants 136....
- Doctrine and Covenants 1
The Doctrine and Covenants is a book of scripture containing revelations from the Lord to the Prophet Joseph Smith and to a few other latter-day prophets. It is unique in scripture because it is not a translation of ancient documents.
The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C or D. and C.) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Doctrine and Covenants. A collection of latter-day divine revelations and inspired declarations. The Lord gave these to Joseph Smith and several of his successors for the establishment and regulation of the kingdom of God on the earth in the last days.
- Book of Commandments, 1833
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1835 Edition
- 1844 Edition
- 1876 Edition
- 1921 Edition
- 1981 Edition
- 2013 Edition
Printed in Independence, Missouri.In July 1833, mobs destroyed the printing press and building partway through the printing.From the saved pages, 64 and a half chapters — as the sections were called then — were included.Sold for 25 cents each, and the owner bound his or her copy.Printed in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1835.Contained the seven Lectures on Faith (the doctrine) and 103 revelations (the covenants).Accepted by the Church on Aug. 17, 1835.Included “the Appendix,” now known as Section 133.Printed in Nauvoo, Illinois.103 sections in the 1835 edition, plus 7 additional items.Section 111, now Section 135, a tribute to Joseph and Hyrum Smith, was added during the printing and printed in smaller text so that it would fit on the page at the end of the book.Elder Orson Pratt, then the Church historian, worked on the new edition.Sections were reordered to be in rough chronological order.26 new sections were added, including sections 2, 13, 109, 110, 121-123, 132 and 136.Verse sizes and section headings changed.A committee of 5 apostles — Elders George F. Richards, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph Fielding Smith, James E. Talmage and Melvin J. Ballard — reviewed the Doctrine and Covenants.They recommended adding 20 sections, but none were added. (It’s not known precisely which sections those were.)Wilford Woodruff’s Manifesto was labeled as an “Official Declaration.” (It had been included in recent printings.)Lectures on Faith removed.2 revelations that were in the Pearl of Great Price in 1976 — Joseph Smith’s vision of the celestial kingdom and Joseph F. Smith’s 1918 vision of the redemption of the dead — were added as sections...The 1978 revelation on the priesthood was included as a second official declaration.Footnotes were changed to correspond with the Latter-day Saint edition of the English Bible, which was published for the first time in 1979.Section headings altered to incorporate new historical research, primarily through the Joseph Smith Papers project.Historical introductions to the official declarations added.Minor spelling and punctuation errors corrected.Footnote and index errors corrected.Jan 4, 2022 · Doctrine and Covenants is one of the “standard works” of Mormonism, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Along with the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and the Bible, Doctrine and Covenants is a text the LDS considers authoritative in matters of doctrine.
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The Doctrine and Covenants is a compilation of revelations, most of which were received by the Prophet Joseph Smith for the establishment and governance of the kingdom of God in the latter days. It is a standard work of the Church and functions as its open, ever-expanding, ecclesiastical Constitution.
