For quotations and paraphrases of the Scriptures, the Book of Mormon relies mostly upon Isaiah, and quite explicitly so. The forty-eighth and forty-ninth chapters of Isaiah are to be found in 1 Nephi, chapters 20 and 21; and the second to the fourteenth chapters of Isaiah, inclusive are in II Nephi, chapters 12-24. Also in II Nephi, chapters 7 and 8, are the words of Isaiah, chapters 50 and 51. In all these cases prophecies are being read to the people. To describe the presence of Christ on the American contingent, St. Matthew is used, and the Sermon on the Mount is given. In III Nephi, chapters 12-14, are found the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of Matthew. Also in this book, Christ, in teaching the people of the New world. Quotes from the Old Testament and incorporates the fifty-second and fifty-fourth chapter of Isaiah in chapters 24 and 25. In Moroni, chapter 7, where the teachings of Mormon on charity are given, there is a strong resemblance to St. Paul (I Cor., chap. 13), which is most striking in verse 45:

And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things [Moroni 7:45].