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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SECTION 60
  13 Behold, they have been sent to preach my gospel among the congregations of the wicked; wherefore, I give unto them a commandment, thus: Thou shalt not aidle away thy time, neither shalt thou bury thy btalent that it may not be known.

Footnotes
13a
D&C 42: 42.
  42 Thou shalt not be aidle; for he that is idle shall not eat the bbread nor wear the garments of the claborer.
b
Matt. 25: 25 (14-30)
  25 And I was aafraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
D&C 82: 18.
  18 And all this for the benefit of the church of the living God, that every man may aimprove upon his btalent, that every man may cgain other dtalents, yea, even an hundred fold, to be cast into the Lord’s estorehouse, to become the common fproperty of the whole church—