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2 Nephi 2:11

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

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2 Nephi 2:11

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness…

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2 Nephi 4 — Lehi's Death, the Brothers' Anger, and the Psalm of Nephi
2 Nephi 5 — The Split, the Land of Nephi, and 'After the Manner of Happiness'
2 Nephi 10 — Reconcile Yourselves — Jacob's Second Day and the Land of Promise
2 Nephi 24 — Isaiah 14 — Israel Restored, the Taunt-Song over Babylon's King, Lucifer Fallen from Heaven
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
2 Nephi 26 — Nephi's Vision Continued — The Nephite Destruction, the Whisper out of the Dust, and the Universal Invitation
2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line
2 Nephi 31 — The Doctrine of Christ — Baptism, the Holy Ghost, and the Strait Way
Alma 12 — The Plan of Redemption Made Known — Mysteries According to Heed and Diligence, the Fall, and the Second Death
Alma 29 — O That I Were an Angel — A Psalm of Holy Desire and Holier Restraint
Alma 34 — The Great and Last Sacrifice — Amulek on the Infinite Atonement, the Mediator, and the Time to Prepare to Meet God
Alma 41 — Wickedness Never Was Happiness — Alma on the Restoration of the Soul
Alma 42 — Mercy Cannot Rob Justice — Alma on the Plan of Redemption
Helaman 14 — A Day, and a Night, and a Day — The Signs of His Coming and His Death
Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored
Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined
Mosiah 29 — The Reign of the Judges Established — Mosiah's Epistle on the Voice of the People, the Danger of the Unrighteous King, How Much Iniquity One Wicked King Causes, and Alma the Younger Chosen Chief Judge
Doctrine and Covenants 29 — The Great I AM
2 Kings 22 — I Have Found the Book — the Boy King Who Walked Straight, the Scroll Lost Inside the Temple, the Clothes Torn at the Reading, and Huldah's Oracle of the Tender Heart
2 Kings 24 — According to the Word of the LORD — Nebuchadnezzar Comes Up, Jehoiachin Opens the Gates, Ten Thousand Go to Babylon, and a King Named Righteousness Takes a Tilting Throne
Esther 1 — The Feast at the Center of the Empire — 127 Provinces, 180 Days of Glory, a Queen Who Said No, and the Vacancy Providence Left Open
Esther 3 — The Man Who Would Not Bow — Haman the Agagite, the Ancient Enmity Awakened, and the Lot Cast Over a Loaded Table
Esther 8 — The Word That May No Man Reverse — Haman's House, the Signet on Mordecai's Hand, and a Second Decree Answering the First
Genesis 1 — The Beginning That Explains Everything — God Creates the Heaven and the Earth, the Spirit Broods on the Deep, the Divine Council Says Let Us, and Man Is Made in the Image of God
Genesis 2 — The Breath in the Dust — the Seventh Day Hallowed, the Man Formed, Eden Planted, and the First Marriage Made One Flesh
Genesis 3 — The Choice That Opened the World — the Serpent's Question, the Fruit and the Opened Eyes, the Promise of the Seed, and the Coats of Skins
Genesis 4 — Two Brothers and One Altar — the First Offering Accepted and Refused, Sin Crouching at the Door, the Blood That Cries from the Ground, and the Seed Appointed Instead of Abel
Job 1 — The Wager in Heaven — Job of Uz, the Accuser in the Council, and the Man Who Worshipped in the Ruins
Job 2 — Skin for Skin — The Second Council, the Boils, the Wife's Grief, and the Silence of Friends
Job 38 — Out of the Whirlwind — The LORD Answers Job Not with a Why but with a Who
Nehemiah 8 — The Book Opened in the Sight of All the People — Ezra Reads the Law, the Sense Is Given, and Grief Turns to the Joy of the LORD
Psalms 1 — The Two Ways — The Blessed Man, the Tree by the Water, the Chaff on the Wind, and the Doorway into the Psalter
Psalms 19 — Two Books of One Author — The Heavens That Preach Without Words and the Law That Revives the Soul
Psalms 31 — Into Thine Hand — A Lament of Trust, the Rock and House of Defence, and the Spirit Committed to God
Moses 3 — Spiritual Before Temporal — the Garden, the Rib, and the One-Flesh Covenant
Moses 4 — Give Me Thine Honor — the Council, the Serpent, and the First Promise of Christ
Moses 5 — The Similitude of the Sacrifice — Adam's Altar, Eve's Joy, and the First Master Mahan

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