You are here

Home / Research / KnoWhys
KnoWhy Scripture Filter
Jorge Cocco's painting, "The Rock and the Sand," depicting Jesus' parable of the house built on the rock and the house built on sand.
Luke 6:47–48, Matthew 7:24–25
KnoWhy #659
February 21, 2023
How Can We Build Our Foundations on a Rock?
Portrait of Martin Harris colorized by Bryce M. Haymond. Martin Harris's baptism certificate courtesy of Trace Mayer.
Doctrine and Covenants 5:26
KnoWhy #607
June 3, 2021
Why Did Martin Harris Come Back to the Church?
Portrait of Martin Harris by Lewis A. Ramsay. One dollar bank note of the Kirtland Safety Society.
Doctrine and Covenants 5:32
KnoWhy #606
June 1, 2021
Why Was Martin Harris Cut Off from the Church?
Image by Scott G Winterton via Deseret News.
Doctrine and Covenants 6:1
KnoWhy #593
January 26, 2021
Why Were So Many Sections in the Doctrine and Covenants Revealed during the Days When the Book of Mormon Was Being Translated?
Portrait of Joseph Knight. Artist Unknown.
Doctrine and Covenants 12:6
KnoWhy #595
February 9, 2021
How Was the Joseph Knight Family Important to Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon?
Photograph of David Whitmer.
Doctrine and Covenants 14:8
KnoWhy #609
June 10, 2021
Why Did David Whitmer Never Return to the Church?
Castle at Tuloom by Frederick Catherwood. Image via Archive.org
Doctrine and Covenants 17:1
KnoWhy #596
February 16, 2021
Why Did the Lord Command the Three Witnesses to Rely upon His Word?
The Book of Mormon with a Grandin Printing Press replica at the Crandall Printing Museum. Image by Daniel Smith.
Doctrine and Covenants 19:26
KnoWhy #597
February 25, 2021
Why Was Martin Harris Needed to Pay for the Printing of the Book of Mormon?
The Rise of the Church of Christ in These Last Days by Robert T. Barrett. Image via Church of Jesus Christ.
Doctrine and Covenants 20:1
KnoWhy #598
March 2, 2021
How Did the Establishment of Jesus Christ’s Church in 1830 Comply with the Law?
Portrait of Oliver Cowdery. Landscape of Far West by Al Rounds.
Doctrine and Covenants 20:3
KnoWhy #603
May 11, 2021
Why Was Oliver Cowdery Excommunicated from the Church?
Portrait of Emma Hale Smith. Oil on canvas, David Rogers, 1842. Image via the Joseph Smith Papers.
Doctrine and Covenants 25:5–6
KnoWhy #625
November 30, 2021
Why Did Emma Smith Remain in Nauvoo after the Death of Joseph Smith?
Portrait of Sidney Rigdon with the manuscript of D&C 76 from The Joseph Smith Papers.
Doctrine and Covenants 35:3
KnoWhy #601
April 13, 2021
What Converted Sidney Rigdon to the Book of Mormon?
Cover of the Peace Maker pamphlet via Archive.org.
Doctrine and Covenants 42:22
KnoWhy #634
June 21, 2022
Who Wrote the Peace Maker Pamphlet?
Bank notes of the Kirtland Safety Society. Landscape painting of Kirtland by Al Rounds.
Doctrine and Covenants 64:21
KnoWhy #604
May 18, 2021
Why Did the Kirtland Safety Society Fail?
Image of praying person by congerdesign via Pixabay.
Doctrine and Covenants 65:4
KnoWhy #610
June 17, 2021
Why Is Doctrine and Covenants 65 Called a Revelation on Prayer?
Portrait of William McLellin via The Joseph Smith Papers.
Doctrine and Covenants 66:1
KnoWhy #611
July 1, 2021
Why Did William E. McLellin Call the Book of Mormon the “Apple of My Eye”?
Judith and Holofernes by Jan de Bray. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Doctrine and Covenants 91:1
KnoWhy #613
August 10, 2021
Why Study Ancient Apocryphal Literature?
Covered wagons traveling in Utah shortly before the Mountain Meadows Massacre, September 1857. Portraits of John D. Lee (left) and Brigham Young (right).
Doctrine and Covenants 98:34
KnoWhy #633
June 14, 2022
Why Were Violent Acts like the Mountain Meadows Massacre Committed by Latter-day Saints?
Image of U.S. Constitution via Pixabay.
Doctrine and Covenants 101:77
KnoWhy #615
September 7, 2021
What Are the “Just and Holy Principles” of the US Constitution?
Painting of the "Steamboat Heroine" of 1832 by Peter Rindlisbacher. Image via The Oklahoman and The Oklahoma History Center.
Doctrine and Covenants 104:78
KnoWhy #623
November 4, 2021
Why Did Joseph Smith File for Bankruptcy?
The Twelve Apostles and First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Rome, Italy Temple Visitor Center. Image via Church of Jesus Christ.
Doctrine and Covenants 107:27
KnoWhy #617
September 21, 2021
Why Must There Be Unity within the Presiding Quorums of the Church?
Doctrine and Covenants 88 and 109 via The Joseph Smith Papers. Image of the Kirtland Temple via Kenneth Mays
Doctrine and Covenants 109:6
KnoWhy #618
September 28, 2021
Why Was Doctrine and Covenants Section 88 Quoted in Section 109?
Christ Appears in Kirtland Temple by Walter Rane. Image via Gospel Media Library.
Doctrine and Covenants 110:1
KnoWhy #619
October 5, 2021
Why Is the “Pentecostal” Season in Kirtland Believable?
Windows at Liberty by Andrew Knaupp. Submitted to the 2021 Book of Mormon Central Art Contest.
Doctrine and Covenants 121:1
KnoWhy #621
October 19, 2021
Why Did Joseph Write His Famous Letter from Liberty Jail?
Cold Missouri Night by Joseph Brickey
Doctrine and Covenants 121:6
KnoWhy #620
October 12, 2021
Why Were the Saints Driven from Missouri in the Fall of 1838?
Portraits of Joseph Smith and Lilburn Boggs.
Doctrine and Covenants 127:1
KnoWhy #632
May 31, 2022
Did Joseph Smith Attempt to Assassinate Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs?
Painting of the Heber C. Kimball home in Nauvoo by Al Rounds. Image of the Nauvoo Charter from the Library of Congress.
Doctrine and Covenants 134:1
KnoWhy #622
October 26, 2021
Why Was the Nauvoo City Charter Important for Protecting the Saints?
Painting of Carthage Jail by Al Rounds. Painting of The Prophet Joseph Smith, by Alvin Gittins.
Doctrine and Covenants 135:1
KnoWhy #624
November 25, 2021
Why was Joseph Smith Murdered?
Statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Image via Church of Jesus Christ.
Doctrine and Covenants 135:4
KnoWhy #614
August 24, 2021
Why Was Hyrum Faithful to His Witness of the Book of Mormon?
Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New York City Hall, New York. Drawn by Winslow Homer, 1869. Image via Met Museum.
Joseph Smith—History 1:33
KnoWhy #616
September 14, 2021
Why Did Joseph Smith File a Legal Complaint against Doctor Philastus Hurlbut?
Still Image from American Prophet
Joseph Smith—History 1:56
KnoWhy #594
February 2, 2021
Why Was Joseph Smith Accused of Being a “Disorderly Person” in 1826?