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This template makes it easy to create links to Latter Day Saint movement scriptures, including to specific chapters/sections and verses inside those texts. By default, the template links to the texts as stored on Wikisource, but adding the optional "website=lds" parameter will create links to the LDS Church's website instead.
The most common usage for the template, citing to a single scripture verse, uses four parameters: {{LDS|display text|book name|chapter|verse}}
For example, {{LDS|Eth.|Ether|12|4}} renders as Eth. 12:4.
Additional parameters can be provided to cite to a range of verses and/or to the LDS Church website instead of Wikisource, as explained below.
Basic usage
{{LDS|Eth.|Ether|12|4}}
Results:
- Creates html link to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon_(1981)/Ether#12:4
- Jumps to verse on page
- Displays in the article text as: Eth. 12:4
Note
The first two parameters ("display text" and "book name") in many cases may be the same or similar, but they should always both be provided. For example, to produce Alma 7:11 you should type {{LDS|Alma|alma|7|11}}. Forgetting to provide the book name when it is the same or similar to the display text is the most common error when using this template.
Template Data
For citing to LDS scriptures on Wikisource (or the LDS church website)
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| display text | 1 | text to display to user before the chapter/verse numbers; usually the full book name ("First Nephi") or an abbreviation ("1 Ne."), but it could be anything (e.g., "My favorite book of scripture") or even left blank (useful if citing to multiple different chapters of the same book and you don't want to repeat the book name)
| String | suggested |
| book name | 2 | name of book (or an alias/abbreviation); this parameter is not case sensitive (e.g., 'alma' is the same as 'Alma')
| String | suggested |
| chapter | 3 | chapter (or section) of scripture being cited
| Number | suggested |
| verse | 4 | verse of scripture being cited
| Number | suggested |
| end verse | 5 | end verse(s) of a series of cited verses, such as the 5 in "John 3:4–5" or the "–5, 16" in "John 3:4–5, 16". An en dash is automatically added between this parameter and the verse# parameter unless the end verse flag has a value (see the end verse flag parameter for more info about that usage)
| String | optional |
| footnote | 6 | [DEPRECATED] letter of footnote to cite to. If this parameter has any value, it changes the citation to link to the verse *and* highlights the footnote matching the letter. If no match found, does not highlight anything. | String | deprecated |
| cross ref flag | 7 | [DEPRECATED] if this has any value, then it changes the citation to link to the verse only and displays all verses that cross reference to it in the LDS church website's sidebar. (Ignores the value in footnote, if any) | Unknown | deprecated |
| nonconsecutive end verse flag | 8 | if this has any value at all, then the hyphen before the 'end verse' parameter will not be automatically added. This allows for quoting of non-contiguous verses such as "John 3:5, 16" — the end verse parameter in this example should be ", 16"
| String | optional |
| website | website | website to which to link; default is wikisource, but set this (named!) parameter to "lds" to cite to the LDS Church's website instead
| String | optional |
Book Name parameter aliases
The book name parameter can be the full name of the book of scripture cited (e.g., Alma, 1 Nephi, Moses, or 2 Kings) or any of these common aliases/abbreviations:
| Standard Work | Book | Aliases |
|---|---|---|
| Bible (King James) | Deuteronomy | deut, dt |
| Hosea | hos | |
| Nehemiah | neh | |
| Leviticus | lev, lv | |
| 1 Samuel | 1sam, 1sm, 1_sam, 1-sam, 1 sam | |
| Ruth | ru, ruth | |
| Malachi | mal | |
| Ecclesiastes | eccles, eccl, qoheleth | |
| John | jn | |
| Isaiah | isa, is | |
| Exodus | exod, ex | |
| Mark | mk | |
| 2 Chronicles | 2chron, 2chr, 2-chr, 2_chr, 2 chr | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1chron, 1chr, 1-chr, 1_chr, 1 chr | |
| 1 Corinthians | 1cor, 1-cor, 1_cor, 1 cor | |
| 2 Corinthians | 2cor, 2-cor, 2_cor, 2 cor | |
| Daniel | dan, dn | |
| Luke | lk | |
| Song of Solomon | songofsol, songofsongs, song, songs, sg, canticles, canticleofcanticles, songs of solomon | |
| Judges | judg, jgs | |
| Joel | jl | |
| Lamentations | lam | |
| Proverbs | prov, prv | |
| Psalms | ps, pss, psalm | |
| Joshua | josh, jo | |
| 2 Timothy | 2tim, 2tm, 2-tim, 2_tim, 2 tim | |
| 1 Timothy | 1tim, 1tm, 1-tim, 1_tim, 1 tim | |
| Esther | est, esth | |
| Ezekiel | ezek, ez | |
| 2 John | 2jn, 2-jn, 2_jn, 2 jn | |
| 1 John | 1jn, 1-jn, 1_jn, 1 jn | |
| Obadiah | obad, ob | |
| 3 John | 3jn, 3-jn, 3_jn, 3 jn | |
| Habakkuk | hab, hb | |
| Nahum | nah, na | |
| Micah | mic, mi | |
| Job | jb | |
| Titus | ti | |
| James | jas | |
| Zechariah | zech, zec, zach, zac | |
| Matthew | matt, mt | |
| Philemon | philem, phlm | |
| Ephesians | eph | |
| Numbers | num, nm | |
| Jude | ||
| Jeremiah | jer | |
| 1 Peter | 1pet, 1pt, 1-pet, 1_pet, 1 pet | |
| Hebrews | heb, hebrew | |
| Jonah | jon | |
| Amos | am | |
| Colossians | col | |
| Ezra | ||
| Philippians | phil, philip | |
| Revelation | rev, apocalypse, apoc, rv, revelations | |
| Galatians | gal | |
| Romans | rom, roman | |
| Acts | actsoftheapostles, the acts, acts of the apostles, the acts of the apostles | |
| Haggai | hag, hg | |
| Zephaniah | zeph, zep | |
| 2 Thessalonians | 2thess, 2thes, 2-thes, 2_thes, 2-thess, 2_thess, 2 thess, 2 thes | |
| 1 Thessalonians | 1thess, 1thes, 1-thes, 1_thes, 1-thess, 1_thess, 1 thess, 1 thes | |
| Genesis | gen, gn | |
| 2 Kings | 2kgs, 2-kgs, 2_kgs, 2 kgs | |
| 1 Kings | 1kgs, 1-kgs, 1_kgs, 1 kgs | |
| 2 Peter | 2pet, 2pt, 2-pet, 2_pet, 2 pet | |
| 2 Samuel | 2sam, 2sm, 2_sam, 2-sam, 2 sam | |
| The Doctrine and Covenants | Official Declaration | od, official declaration |
| The Doctrine and Covenants | dc, d-c, d&c, d & c, doctrine and covenants | |
| Book of Mormon (1981) | Omni | omn |
| Testimony of Three Witnesses | three, 3witnesses | |
| Mosiah | ||
| Helaman | hel | |
| Title Page | ttl, ttlpg, title, title-page, title_page | |
| Enos | en | |
| Mormon | morm, mormon | |
| 1 Nephi | 1-ne, 1_ne, 1ne, 1 ne | |
| 3 Nephi | 3-ne, 3_ne, 3ne, 3 ne | |
| Testimony of Eight Witnesses | eight, 8witnesses | |
| Words of Mormon | w-of-m, wofm, w_of_m | |
| Ether | ||
| Jacob | jac | |
| Moroni | moro, moroni | |
| 4 Nephi | 4-ne, 4_ne, 4ne, 4 ne | |
| Alma | ||
| Jarom | jar | |
| 2 Nephi | 2-ne, 2_ne, 2ne, 2 ne | |
| Lectures on Faith | Lectures on Faith | lof, l-o-f, l-of-f, loff, lectures |
| The Pearl of Great Price (1913) | History | js-h, jsh, js history, joseph smith history, js-hist, js hist |
| Abraham | abr, fac-1, fac1, fac-2, fac2, fac-3, fac3 | |
| JST Matthew | js-m, jsm, joseph smith matthew, jst matt, jst-matt, jst-matthew, js matthew | |
| Moses | ||
| Articles of Faith | a-of-f, a_of_f, aoff, the articles of faith |
Examples
| Wikitext | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|
{{LDS}} |
LDS Standard Works | Not providing any parameters produces a link to the LDS standard works listed in the Mormonism portal on Wikisource |
{{LDS|Helaman|helaman}} |
Helaman | Cite to entire book |
{{LDS|The First Book of Nephi|1ne}} |
The First Book of Nephi | The display text parameter can be used to specify exactly how the book name is displayed |
{{LDS|Eth.|Ether|12}} |
Eth. 12 | Cite to entire chapter |
{{LDS|Doctrine and Covenants|dc|130|11}} |
Doctrine and Covenants 130:11 | Cite to specific verse |
{{LDS|Eth.|Ether|12|4|6}} |
Eth. 12:4–6 | Cite to consecutive range of verses simply by adding an end verse parameter (note the en dash automatically added between beginning and ending verses) |
{{LDS|John|john|3|5|–14, 16|||y}} |
John 3:5–14, 16 | Cite to nonconsecutive verses (note that the en dash must be manually included in this instance) |
Some famous scriptures in Ether are {{LDS|Eth.|Ether|12|4|, 6|||y}}; {{LDS||ether|13|9}}; and {{LDS||ether|15|31}}. |
Some famous scriptures in Ether are Eth. 12:4, 6; 13:9; and 15:31. | Leave the display text parameter blank to only include the chapter/verse in the link |
{{LDS|1 Ne.|1_ne|3|7|8|website=lds}} |
1 Ne. 3:7–8 | Include "website=lds" to link to the LDS Church's website (this simply calls the {{LDS/legacy}} template) |
See also
- The LDSverse module's test cases page has many more usage examples, including citations to the KJV, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Lectures on Faith.
- {{LDS/legacy}}
- {{Bibleverse}}