Chiasmus in Mosiah 3


The whole of Mosiah chapter 3 is a chiasmus with the core message emphasized by an imbedded chiasmus. This is the central message of King Benjamin's discourse. He testifies that the very words were revealed to him by an angel of the Lord. It is the message of the angel that makes up this beautiful, perfectly formed, and complex chiasmus — a chiasmus within a chiasmus. The second chiasmus placed perfectly at the focal point of the first.

A CHRIST WILL COME TO THE EARTH AND
  B CHRIST WILL JUDGE THE WORLD
    C HE WILL ATONE FOR THE SINS OF ALL WHO REPENT OR IGNORANTLY SINNED
      D SINCE CHILDREN ARE BLAMELESS, HE ATONETH FOR THEIR SINS
        E A NATURAL MAN UNLESS HE BECOMES HUMBLE LIKE A LITTLE CHILD
          a) but men drink damnation to their souls except they humble themselves
            b) and become as little children,
              c) and believe that salvation . . .is. . .in and through the atoning blood of Christ
              F THE NATURAL MAN IS AN ENEMY TO GOD
                d) For the natural man
                  e) is an enemy to God,
                    f) and has been from the fall of Adam,
                    f') and will be, forever and ever,
                  e') unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit,
                d') And putteth off the natural man
        E' TO PUT OFF THE NATURAL MAN HE MUST BECOME HUMBLE LIKE A CHILD
              c') becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord,
            b') and becometh as a child
          a') submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things...
      D' SOON NONE WILL BE BLAMELESS BUT LITTLE CHILDREN
    C' AS PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT OF CHRIST THEY ARE NO MORE BLAMELESS
  B' EVERY MAN WILL BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS
A' THOSE WHO DO NOT REPENT MUST SUFFER MISERY AND ENDLESS TORMENT