Agency
The ability and privilege God gives people to choose and to act for themselves.
- Of every tree thou mayest freely eat:Gen. 2:16;
- Man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed:2 Ne. 2:15–16;
- Men are free to choose liberty and eternal life or captivity and death:2 Ne. 2:27;
- Ye are free; ye are permitted to act for yourselves:Hel. 14:30;
- A third part of the hosts of heaven turned he away because of their agency:D&C 29:36;
- It must needs be that the devil should tempt men, or they could not be agents:D&C 29:39;
- Let every man choose for himself:D&C 37:4;
- Every man may act according to the moral agency which I have given unto him:D&C 101:78;
- Satan sought to destroy the agency of man:Moses 4:3;
- The Lord gave unto man his agency:Moses 7:32;

