A while back ago I wrote Scriptures Convert Passages program for the Widows desktop. Scriptures Convert Passages program converts verses between LDS / Brighamite church verses and RLDS / Josephite / CoC verses for the Book of Mormon. Along with converting Doctrine and Covenants sections between LDS / Brighamite church verses and RLDS / Josephite / CoC. I recently finished an Android version of Scriptures Convert Passages using the same libraries and just a different UI. (I don’t have any Apple devices to create an Apple version with the exact same code as the Android version using .net MAUI.)

I’ve been adding both LDS / Brighamite church verses and RLDS / Josephite / CoC verses on my posts and pages since someone gave me the “The Book of Mormon Chapter & Verse: RLDS-LDS Conversion Table” booklet. For a long time, I manually looked up the Book of Mormon conversion in “The Book of Mormon Chapter & Verse: RLDS-LDS Conversion Table” and for the Doctrine and Covenants I would look at the Doctrine and Covenants Wikipedia page for conversions of the Doctrine and Covenants sections conversions. But being a Software Engineer, I decided to write a program to do the conversion for both the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants for me. Perhaps one day I’ll add the New Translations / JST / Inspired Version of the Bible also.

The part that took the longest was to enter the data from “The Book of Mormon Chapter & Verse: RLDS-LDS Conversion Table” booklet as it is 48 pages.

For those who decide to look at the source code, you will see a console app, simply to convert a csv file into C# array, and another one to create a reversed csv file. I created the reversing program, so I didn’t need to create a csv by hand which was for the reversed direction, it was because I did not want to enter that data again in reverse.

I created the Scriptures Convert Passages programs to help bridge the gap between the LDS / Brighamite church verses and RLDS / Josephite / CoC verses while sharing Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants passages. More work needs to be done on the Doctrine and Covenants conversion, as right not it only does section numbers, but it is a good start. Also, perhaps one day I’ll add the New Translations / JST / Inspired Version of the Bible and the Book of Moses. But till then, I do believe that the Scriptures Convert Passages programs are good tool to help the LDS / Brighamite church and RLDS / Josephite / CoC (and break offs) better communicate scriptural passages with each other.