“by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood, ye are sanctified.”
Moses 6:60
“Atop the pole supporting the [Nauvoo Temple] weather vane is a stylized flame of fire. Tongues of fire are a symbol of the gift of thee Holy Ghost (Acts 2:3-4). A fitting symbol resting a top the highest pinacle of the Nauvoo Temple, where the Spirit of the Lord, even the Holy Ghost, rests down upon those assembled. One account even reported that “a flame of fire” was seen “to rest upon the temple.”
Lisle Brown, Nauvoo Temple Exterior Symbolism, http://users.marshall.edu/~brown/nauvoo/symbols.html, accessed Feb. 26, 2013
“And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
Acts 2:3-4
“John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:”
Luke 3:16
“For the gate by which ye should enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost.”
2 Nephi 31:17
“And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them.”
3 Nephi 17:24
“Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?”
Deuteronomy 4:33
“And I said unto them that our father also saw that the justice of God did also divide the wicked from the righteous; and the brightness thereof was like unto the brightness of a flaming fire, which ascendeth up unto God forever and ever, and hath no end.”
1 Nephi 15:30
“Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.”
Numbers 31:23
“Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.”
1 Corinthians 3:13