Selected from Joseph Smith Jr.’s August 6th, 1833 revelation
1. Renounce War and proclaim peace, and seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children;
2. And again, the hearts of the Jews unto the prophets, and the prophets unto the Jews; lest I come and smite the whole earth with a curse, and all flesh be consumed before me.
3. Let not your hearts be troubled; for in my Father’s house are many mansions, and I have prepared a place for you; and where my Father and I are, there ye shall be also.
4. And again I say unto you, if ye observe to do whatsoever I command you, I, the Lord, will turn away all wrath and indignation from you, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against you.
5. Now, I speak unto you concerning your families—if men will smite you, or your families, once, and ye bear it patiently and revile not against them, neither seek revenge, ye shall be rewarded;
6. But if ye bear it not patiently, it shall be accounted unto you as being meted out as a just measure unto you.
7. And again, if your enemy shall smite you the second time, and you revile not against your enemy, and bear it patiently, your reward shall be a hundred-fold.
8. And again, if he shall smite you the third time, and ye bear it patiently, your reward shall be doubled unto you four-fold;
9. And these three testimonies shall stand against your enemy if he repent not, and shall not be blotted out.
10. And now, verily I say unto you, if that enemy shall escape my vengeance, that he be not brought into judgment before me, then ye shall see to it that ye warn him in my name, that he come no more upon you, neither upon your family, even your children’s children unto the third and fourth generation.
11. And then, if he shall come upon you or your children, or your children’s children unto the third and fourth generation, I have delivered thine enemy into thine hands;
12. And then if thou wilt spare him, thou shalt be rewarded for thy righteousness; and also thy children and thy children’s children unto the third and fourth generation.
13. Nevertheless, thine enemy is in thine hands; and if thou rewardest him according to his works thou art justified; if he has sought thy life, and thy life is endangered by him, thine enemy is in thine hands and thou art justified.
14. Behold, this is the law I gave unto my servant Nephi, and thy fathers, Joseph, and Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham, and all mine ancient prophets and apostles.
15. And again, this is the law that I gave unto mine ancients, that they should not go out unto battle against any nation, kindred, tongue, or people, save I, the Lord, commanded them.
16. And if any nation, tongue, or people should proclaim war against them, they should first lift a standard of peace unto that people, nation, or tongue;
17. And if that people did not accept the offering of peace, neither the second nor the third time, they should bring these testimonies before the Lord;
18. Then I, the Lord, would give unto them a commandment and justify them in going out to battle against that nation, tongue, or people.
19. And I, the Lord, would fight their battles, and their children’s battles, and their children’s children’s, until they had avenged themselves on all their enemies, to the third and fourth generation.
20. Behold, this is an ensample unto all people, saith the Lord your God, for justification before me.
21. And again, verily I say unto you, if after thine enemy has come upon thee the first time, he repents and comes unto thee praying thy forgiveness, thou shalt forgive him, and shalt hold it no more as a testimony against thine enemy—
22. And so on unto the second and third time; and as oft as thine enemy repenteth of the trespass wherewith he has trespassed against thee, thou shalt forgive him, until seventy times seven.
23. And if he trespasses against thee and repents not the first time, nevertheless thou shalt forgive him.
24. And if he trespasses against thee the second time, and repent not, nevertheless thou shalt forgive him.
25. And if he trespasses against thee the third time, and repents not, thou shalt also forgive him.
26. But if he trespasses against thee the fourth time, thou shalt not forgive him, but shalt bring these testimonies before the Lord; and they shall not be blotted out until he repents and rewards thee four-fold in all things wherewith he has trespassed against thee.
27. And if he does this, thou shalt forgive him with all thine heart; and if he does not this, I, the Lord, will avenge thee of thine enemy a hundred-fold;
28. And upon his children, and upon his children’s children of all them that hate me, unto the third and fourth generation.
29. But if the children shall repent, or the children’s children, and turn to the Lord their God, with all their hearts and with all their might, mind, and strength, and restore four-fold for all their trespasses wherewith they have trespassed, or wherewith their fathers have trespassed, or their fathers’ fathers, then thine indignation shall be turned away;
30. And vengeance shall no more come upon them, saith the Lord thy God, and their trespasses shall never be brought any more as a testimony before the Lord against them. Amen.