Shoot, I was going to highlight this to you, but I guess you won’t be reading it:
Read Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 13:25-27:
(halfway down verse 25) Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? “
It is almost identical to this verse in the KJV:
Matthew 6:25-27:“25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?”
Now, open your LDS issued KJV to the Joseph Smith Translation in the back of the book on page 802. For Matthew 6:25-27 it says:
“25. And, again, I say unto you, go ye into the world, and care not for the world: for the world will hate you, and will persecute you, and will turn you out of their synagogues. 26. Nevertheless, ye shall go forth from house to house, teaching the people; and I will go before you. 27. And your heavenly Father will provide for you whatsoever things ye need for food, what ye shall eat; and for raiment, what ye shall wear or put on.”
Joseph Smith corrected the Bible. In doing so he corrected the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is the most correct book and was translated a mere decade before the JST. It was not corrupted over time. So what gives?
It’s a new question you ask, CC, and a good one, so I’m happy to respond.
Are the meanings of the verses different? Are different doctrines taught? Remember that the Book of Mormon was translated from ancient records, like the Bible; what if the recorders of one or the other did not use the exact same words to describe the two different events? That is not a stretch of logic. Nor is it a stretch of logic to think that Christ could have used different verbiage to teach the same things; He is neither a robot nor a tape recorder.
The spirit of the two, however, is the same; the message is unified.