The Seventh Commandment: A Shield
Neal A. Maxwell October 2001 Sunday Afternoon Session
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I share the reluctance Jacob expressed when he wrote of the problems of unchastity and infidelity, the breaching of what some number as the seventh commandment.
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I share the reluctance Jacob expressed when he wrote of the problems of unchastity and infidelity, the breaching of what some number as the seventh commandment.
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I share the reluctance Jacob expressed when he wrote of the problems of unchastity and infidelity, the breaching of what some number as the seventh commandment.
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Hence, reassuring gospel givens could rightly be stressed, such as how individuals who truly repent, though their “sins be as scarlet,” may become “as white as snow” (Isa.
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Hence, reassuring gospel givens could rightly be stressed, such as how individuals who truly repent, though their “sins be as scarlet,” may become “as white as snow” (Isa.
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Clearly, unchastity and infidelity bring serious consequences, such as the rippling, even haunting effects of illegitimacy and fatherlessness, along with disease and the shredding of families.
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Clearly, unchastity and infidelity bring serious consequences, such as the rippling, even haunting effects of illegitimacy and fatherlessness, along with disease and the shredding of families.
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Clearly, unchastity and infidelity bring serious consequences, such as the rippling, even haunting effects of illegitimacy and fatherlessness, along with disease and the shredding of families.
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Strange, in a time otherwise obsessed with entitlements, how little concern there is over our becoming entitled to the blessings of heaven.
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The influential tendencies of the natural man are unfriendly to the seventh commandment, and these involve the self-damaging “carnal, sensual, [and] devilish” (Mosiah 16:3; see also Mosiah 3:19; Moses 5:13).
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The influential tendencies of the natural man are unfriendly to the seventh commandment, and these involve the self-damaging “carnal, sensual, [and] devilish” (Mosiah 16:3; see also Mosiah 3:19; Moses 5:13).
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The influential tendencies of the natural man are unfriendly to the seventh commandment, and these involve the self-damaging “carnal, sensual, [and] devilish” (Mosiah 16:3; see also Mosiah 3:19; Moses 5:13).
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The influential tendencies of the natural man are unfriendly to the seventh commandment, and these involve the self-damaging “carnal, sensual, [and] devilish” (Mosiah 16:3; see also Mosiah 3:19; Moses 5:13).
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One of the best ways we can put “off the natural man” is to starve him (Mosiah 3:19).
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Unfortunately, breaking the seventh commandment is made easier when clever sophists persuade some that whatsoever individuals do is really “no crime” (Alma 30:17).
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Unfortunately, breaking the seventh commandment is made easier when clever sophists persuade some that whatsoever individuals do is really “no crime” (Alma 30:17).
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Unfortunately, breaking the seventh commandment is made easier when clever sophists persuade some that whatsoever individuals do is really “no crime” (Alma 30:17).
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But God does not have two sets of Ten Commandments, one indoor and another outdoor!
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But God does not have two sets of Ten Commandments, one indoor and another outdoor!
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But God does not have two sets of Ten Commandments, one indoor and another outdoor!
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But God does not have two sets of Ten Commandments, one indoor and another outdoor!
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There are so many ways to keep the shielding seventh commandment firmly in place.
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There are so many ways to keep the shielding seventh commandment firmly in place.
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There are so many ways to keep the shielding seventh commandment firmly in place.
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Moreover, the avoidance of later difficulty includes not carrying into a marriage unrepented-of sins, causing spouses to start off “unequally yoked together” (2 Cor.
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Moreover, the avoidance of later difficulty includes not carrying into a marriage unrepented-of sins, causing spouses to start off “unequally yoked together” (2 Cor.
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“Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness”
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In an age rightly concerned with truth in advertising, how intellectually insulting are certain deceptive labels: Ecstasy should read misery; Rave is really a mournful mutter emanating from sensuality gone amok.
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Thus the drumbeat of desensitization deadens the tastebuds of the soul by responding illegitimately to the legitimate need for belonging and for love, as predators and victims sadly become “past feeling” (1 Ne.
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Thus the drumbeat of desensitization deadens the tastebuds of the soul by responding illegitimately to the legitimate need for belonging and for love, as predators and victims sadly become “past feeling” (1 Ne.
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Thus the drumbeat of desensitization deadens the tastebuds of the soul by responding illegitimately to the legitimate need for belonging and for love, as predators and victims sadly become “past feeling” (1 Ne.
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However costumed or made up, lust is no substitute for love; actually, brothers and sisters, it chokes out the development of real love, causing “the love of many [to] wax cold” (Matt.
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However costumed or made up, lust is no substitute for love; actually, brothers and sisters, it chokes out the development of real love, causing “the love of many [to] wax cold” (Matt.
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Moreover, the foregoing trends are further accelerated by the fashionable nonjudgmentalism which excuses whatever wrong individuals do—as long as they do anything else commendable.
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Moreover, the foregoing trends are further accelerated by the fashionable nonjudgmentalism which excuses whatever wrong individuals do—as long as they do anything else commendable.
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Moreover, the foregoing trends are further accelerated by the fashionable nonjudgmentalism which excuses whatever wrong individuals do—as long as they do anything else commendable.
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So sobering is all of the foregoing that what follows needs to be said, and I do not hesitate to say it.
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Finally, brothers and sisters, in certain times and circumstances, discipleship requires us to be willing to stand alone!
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Finally, brothers and sisters, in certain times and circumstances, discipleship requires us to be willing to stand alone!
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As we take our stand, the faithful will not be alone—not that alone, however.
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As we take our stand, the faithful will not be alone—not that alone, however.
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As we take our stand, the faithful will not be alone—not that alone, however.
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As we take our stand, the faithful will not be alone—not that alone, however.
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The Articles of Faith
Article 2
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (2 Ne. 2:26)
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- Open paragraph (2 Nephi 2:26)
“Because of their transgression, Adam and Eve, having chosen to leave their state of innocence (see 2 Nephi 2:23–25), were banished from the presence of God.
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (D&C 19:16)
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- Open paragraph (D&C 19:16)
“‘But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I’ (D&C 19:16–17)” (in Conference Report, Oct.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 23: The Transfiguration
1 shared verse
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Luke 22:43)
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- Open paragraph (k)
The divine purpose as shown forth in the Transfiguration may be as incomprehensible to the human mind as is a full conception of the attendant splendor from verbal description; some features of the results achieved are apparent, however.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 33: The Last Supper and the Betrayal
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (D&C 19:16)
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- Open paragraph (i)
In some manner, actual and terribly real though to man incomprehensible, the Savior took upon Himself the burden of the sins of mankind from Adam to the end of the world.
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The Articles of Faith
Article 1
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Ex. 20:14)
- In The Articles of Faith:
- Open paragraph (Ex. 20:14)
President Spencer W.
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