Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants
Doctrine and Covenants 37–40
Detail from Saints Move to Kirtland, by Sam Lawlor
To the early Saints, the Church was more than a place to hear some preaching on Sunday. The revelations used words like cause, kingdom, Zion, and, quite often, work. That may have been part of what attracted people to the restored Church. As much as they loved the doctrine, many also wanted something holy they could dedicate their lives to. Even so, obeying the Lord’s 1830 command to gather in Ohio was not easy. For many, it meant leaving comfortable homes for an unfamiliar frontier (see “Voices of the Restoration: Gathering to Ohio”). Today we can see clearly what those Saints could see only with the eye of faith: the Lord had great blessings waiting for them in Ohio.
The need to gather to Ohio has long since passed, but Saints today still unite around the same cause: to “bring forth Zion” (Doctrine and Covenants 39:13). Like those early Saints, we are invited to forsake “the cares of the world” (Doctrine and Covenants 40:2) and trust the Lord’s promise: “You shall receive … a blessing so great as you never have known” (Doctrine and Covenants 39:10).
D&C 37: Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet and Sidney Rigdon, near Fayette, New York, December 1830. Herein is given the first commandment concerning a gathering in this dispensation.
D&C 38: Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York, January 2, 1831. The occasion was a conference of the Church.
D&C 39: Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to James Covel, at Fayette, New York, January 5, 1831. James Covel, who had been a Methodist minister for about forty years, covenanted with the Lord that he would obey any command that the Lord would give to him through Joseph the Prophet.
D&C 40: Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet and Sidney Rigdon, at Fayette, New York, January 6, 1831. Preceding the record of this revelation, the Prophet’s history states, “As James [Covel] rejected the word of the Lord, and returned to his former principles and people, the Lord gave unto me and Sidney Rigdon the following revelation” (see section 39).
Come, Follow Me Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 16: D&C 37–40, Jonn Claybaugh
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Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 16 (D&C 37–40)
- “The Gathering of My People” D&C 29:1-8; 33:3-7; 37; 38:24-41; 52:2-5, 42-43; 57:1-3; 110:11, Taylor Halverson, December 3, 2013
Scripture Roundtable: D&C Gospel Doctrine Lesson 12, "The Gathering of My People", Administration, March 11, 2017
- Scripture Roundtable: D&C Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38, "In Mine Own Way", Administration, August 2, 2017
Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families (lesson materials at ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
Come, Follow Me—For Sunday School (lesson materials at ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
Come, Follow Me—For Primary (lesson materials at ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
“Jesus Said Love Everyone,” Children’s Songbook, 61.
- Section 36, Revelation to Edward Partridge, Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual (2002), pp 72–73
- “Go to the Ohio”, Revelations in Context
- Section 37, “Ye Shall Go to the Ohio”, Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual (2002), pp 74
- Chapter 15: Doctrine and Covenants 37–38; 41, Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual (2017)
- Section 38, “If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear”, Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual (2002), pp 75–79
- Chapter 14: Doctrine and Covenants 35–36; 39–40, Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual (2017)
- Pride Keeps Us from Choosing the Lord, Doctrine and Covenants Teaching Videos, President Ezra Taft Benson
- James Covel and the “Cares of the World”, Revelations in Context
- Sections 39–40, Revelations to James Covill, Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual (2002), pp 79–80
How does God gather us?, Liahona – Come, Follow Me: Doctrine and Covenants
- Saints, 1:109–11
- Genesis 5:18–24
- Moses 7
- “Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible”, Church History Topics
- “The Gathering of Scattered Israel”, Russell M. Nelson, Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2006, 79–81
- “Be Not Troubled”, Ronald A. Rasband, Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2018, 18–21
- Matthew 13:3–23
- “Love in Our Hearts”
- Moses 7:18
- “Jesus Said Love Everyone”, Children’s Songbook, 61
- Doctrine and Covenants 37-40 (Come, Follow Me), FAIR
- Section 37, Harper, Steven C. – D&C Contexts (Book of Mormon Central Archive)
- Section 38, Harper, Steven C. – D&C Contexts (Book of Mormon Central Archive)
- Section 39-40, Harper, Steven C. – D&C Contexts (Book of Mormon Central Archive)
- Come Follow Me with John Hilton III (Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, April 12-18), Book of Mormon Central
- Come Follow Me with Casey Paul Griffiths (Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, Apr 12), Book of Mormon Central
- Come Follow Me Insights (Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, Apr 12-18), Book of Mormon Central
- Come Follow Me: Act in Doctrine (Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, Apr 12-18), Music for Latter-day Life
- Come Follow Me with Taylor Halverson (Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, Apr 12-18), Book of Mormon Central
- What Converted Sidney Rigdon to the Book of Mormon?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #601
- Hard Questions in Church History with Lynne Hilton Wilson: Lesson 16 (D&C 42, Apr 19-44), Doctrine & Covenants Central
- Doctrine & Covenants 37 – Section Resource, Doctrine & Covenants Central
- Doctrine & Covenants 38 – Section Resource, Doctrine & Covenants Central
- Doctrine & Covenants 39 – Section Resource, Doctrine & Covenants Central
- Doctrine & Covenants 40 – Section Resource, Doctrine & Covenants Central
- Doctrine and Covenants 37 & 38, with Scott Woodward, Doctrine & Covenants Central
- Doctrine and Covenants 37-40 (Apr. 12-18) Come Follow Me Don’t Miss This, Don’t Miss This
- Come Follow Me – Doctrine and Covenants 37-40: “Be One”, unshaken
- Come, Follow Me for Sunday School: “If Ye Are Not One, Ye Are Not Mine”, Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, Meridian Magazine
- Come Follow Me Podcast #16: “If Ye are not One Ye are Not Mine”, Doctrine and Covenants 37-40, Meridian Magazine
- Doctrine and Covenants 37 to 40 -“If Ye Are Not One Ye Are Not Mine”, BYU Studies
