The Doctrine and Covenants

 1 Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great ^aI Am, whose arm of ^bmercy hath ^catoned for your sins;

 2 Who will ^agather his people even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, even as many as will hearken to my voice and ^bhumble themselves before me, and call upon me in mighty prayer.

 3 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, that at this time your ^asins are ^bforgiven you, therefore ye receive these things; but remember to sin no more, lest perils shall come upon you.

 4 Verily, I say unto you that ye are chosen out of the world to declare my gospel with the sound of rejoicing, as with the ^avoice of a trump.

 5 Lift up your hearts and be ^aglad, for I am in your ^bmidst, and am your ^cadvocate with the Father; and it is his good will to give you the ^dkingdom.

 6 And, as it is written—Whatsoever ye shall ^aask in ^bfaith, being ^cunited in prayer according to my command, ye shall receive.

 7 And ye are called to bring to pass the ^agathering of mine ^belect; for mine elect ^chear my voice and ^dharden not their ^ehearts;

 8 Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the Father that they shall be ^agathered in unto one place upon the face of this land, to ^bprepare their hearts and be prepared in all things against the day when ^ctribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked.

 9 For the hour is nigh and the ^aday soon at hand when the earth is ripe; and all the ^bproud and they that do wickedly shall be as ^cstubble; and I will ^dburn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness shall not be upon the earth;

 10 For the hour is nigh, and that which was ^aspoken by mine ^bapostles must be fulfilled; for as they spoke so shall it come to pass;

 11 For I will reveal ^amyself from heaven with power and great glory, with all the ^bhosts thereof, and ^cdwell in ^drighteousness with men on earth a ^ethousand years, and the wicked shall not stand.

 12 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you, and it hath gone forth in a firm decree, by the will of the Father, that mine ^aapostles, the Twelve which were with me in my ministry at Jerusalem, shall stand at my right hand at the day of my coming in a pillar of ^bfire, being clothed with robes of righteousness, with crowns upon their heads, in ^cglory even as I am, to ^djudge the whole house of Israel, even as many as have loved me and kept my commandments, and none else.

 13 For a ^atrump shall sound both long and loud, even as upon Mount Sinai, and all the ^bearth shall quake, and they shall ^ccome forth—yea, even the ^ddead which died in me, to receive a ^ecrown of righteousness, and to be clothed upon, ^feven as I am, to be with me, that we may be one.

 14 But, behold, I say unto you that before this great ^aday shall come the ^bsun shall be ^cdarkened, and the moon shall be turned into blood, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and there shall be greater ^dsigns in heaven above and in the earth beneath;

 15 And there shall be weeping and ^awailing among the hosts of men;

 16 And there shall be a great ^ahailstorm sent forth to destroy the ^bcrops of the earth.

 17 And it shall come to pass, because of the wickedness of the world, that I will take ^avengeance upon the ^bwicked, for they will not repent; for the ^ccup of mine ^dindignation is full; for behold, my ^eblood shall not ^fcleanse them if they hear me not.

 18 Wherefore, I the Lord God will send forth ^aflies upon the face of the earth, which shall take hold of the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat their flesh, and shall cause maggots to come in upon them;

 19 And their tongues shall be stayed that they shall not ^autter against me; and their flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets;

 20 And it shall come to pass that the ^abeasts of the forest and the fowls of the air shall devour them up.

 21 And the great and ^aabominable church, which is the ^bwhore of all the earth, shall be cast down by ^cdevouring fire, according as it is spoken by the mouth of Ezekiel the prophet, who spoke of these things, which have not come to pass but surely ^dmust, as I live, for ^eabominations shall not reign.

 22 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you that when the ^athousand years are ended, and men again begin to deny their God, then will I spare the earth but for a ^blittle season;

 23 And the ^aend shall come, and the heaven and the earth shall be consumed and ^bpass away, and there shall be a new heaven and a ^cnew earth.

 24 For all ^aold things shall ^bpass away, and all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men and ^cbeasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea;

 25 And not one ^ahair, neither mote, shall be lost, for it is the ^bworkmanship of mine hand.

 26 But, behold, verily I say unto you, before the earth shall pass away, ^aMichael, mine archangel, shall sound his ^btrump, and then shall all the dead ^cawake, for their graves shall be opened, and they shall ^dcome forth—yea, even all.

 27 And the ^arighteous shall be gathered on my ^bright hand unto eternal life; and the wicked on my left hand will I be ashamed to own before the Father;

 28 Wherefore I will say unto them—^aDepart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting ^bfire, prepared for the ^cdevil and his angels.

 29 And now, behold, I say unto you, never at any time have I declared from mine own mouth that they should return, for ^awhere I am they cannot come, for they have no power.

 30 But remember that all my judgments are not given unto men; and as the words have gone forth out of my mouth even so shall they be fulfilled, that the ^afirst shall be last, and that the last shall be first in all things whatsoever I have created by the word of my power, which is the power of my ^bSpirit.

 31 For by the power of my Spirit ^acreated I them; yea, all things both ^bspiritual and temporal—

 32 ^aFirst ^bspiritual, secondly temporal, which is the beginning of my work; and again, first temporal, and secondly spiritual, which is the last of my work—

 33 ^aSpeaking unto you that you may naturally understand; but unto myself my works have no ^bend, neither beginning; but it is given unto you that ye may understand, because ye have asked it of me and are agreed.

 34 Wherefore, verily I say unto you that all things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I given unto you a ^alaw which was ^btemporal; neither any man, nor the children of men; neither Adam, your father, whom I created.

 35 Behold, I gave unto him that he should be an ^aagent unto himself; and I gave unto him commandment, but no temporal commandment gave I unto him, for my ^bcommandments are ^cspiritual; they are not natural nor temporal, neither carnal nor sensual.

 36 And it came to pass that Adam, being tempted of the ^adevil—for, behold, the ^bdevil was before Adam, for he ^crebelled against me, saying, Give me thine ^dhonor, which is my ^epower; and also a ^fthird part of the ^ghosts of heaven turned he away from me because of their ^hagency;

 37 And they were thrust down, and thus came the ^adevil and his ^bangels;

 38 And, behold, there is a place ^aprepared for them from the beginning, which place is ^bhell.

 39 And it must needs be that the ^adevil should ^btempt the children of men, or they could not be ^cagents unto themselves; for if they never should have ^dbitter they could not know the sweet—

 40 Wherefore, it came to pass that the devil tempted Adam, and he partook of the forbidden ^afruit and ^btransgressed the commandment, wherein he became ^csubject to the will of the devil, because he yielded unto temptation.

 41 Wherefore, I, the Lord God, caused that he should be ^acast out from the Garden of ^bEden, from my presence, because of his transgression, wherein he became ^cspiritually ^ddead, which is the first death, even that same death which is the last ^edeath, which is spiritual, which shall be pronounced upon the wicked when I shall say: Depart, ye ^fcursed.

 42 But, behold, I say unto you that I, the Lord God, gave unto Adam and unto his seed, that they should not ^adie as to the temporal death, until I, the Lord God, should send forth ^bangels to declare unto them ^crepentance and ^dredemption, through faith on the name of mine ^eOnly Begotten Son.

 43 And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his ^aprobation—that by his ^bnatural death he might be ^craised in ^dimmortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;

 44 And they that believe not unto eternal ^adamnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual ^bfall, because they repent not;

 45 For they love darkness rather than light, and their ^adeeds are evil, and they receive their ^bwages of ^cwhom they list to obey.

 46 But behold, I say unto you, that little ^achildren are ^bredeemed from the foundation of the world through mine Only Begotten;

 47 Wherefore, they cannot ^asin, for power is not given unto Satan to ^btempt little children, until they ^cbegin to become ^daccountable before me;

 48 For it is given unto them even as I will, according to mine own ^apleasure, that great things may be required at the hand of their ^bfathers.

 49 And, again, I say unto you, that whoso having knowledge, have I not commanded to ^arepent?

 50 And he that hath no ^aunderstanding, it remaineth in me to do according as it is written. And now I declare no more unto you at this time. Amen.