Doctrine and Covenants 29: 39

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 29

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—

Footnotes

39a	TG Devil.
b	1 Thes. 3: 5. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the ^atempter have ^btempted you, and our labour be in vain. Moses 4: 4 (3-4) 4 And he became ^aSatan, yea, even the ^bdevil, the father of all ^clies, to ^ddeceive and to blind men, and to lead them ^ecaptive at his will, even as many as would not ^fhearken unto my voice. TG Opposition. TG Temptation.
c	TG Agency.
d	Moses 6: 55. 55 And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch as thy children are ^aconceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, ^bsin conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the ^cbitter, that they may know to prize the good.