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Alma 42:15

And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.

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Alma 42:15

And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.

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2 Nephi 2 — Opposition in All Things, the Fall, and 'Men Are, That They Might Have Joy'
2 Nephi 9 — O the Wisdom of God — Jacob's Great Atonement Sermon
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
Alma 34 — The Great and Last Sacrifice — Amulek on the Infinite Atonement, the Mediator, and the Time to Prepare to Meet God
Alma 36 — I Could Remember My Pains No More — Alma's Conversion to Helaman, and the Chiasm That Turns on the Name of Christ
Alma 39 — Cross Yourself in All These Things — Alma's Charge to Corianton
Alma 40 — The Space Between — Alma on Death, Paradise, and the Resurrection
Alma 41 — Wickedness Never Was Happiness — Alma on the Restoration of the Soul
Mormon 6 — O Ye Fair Ones — The Last Battle at Cumorah, and a Father's Lament Over a Fallen Nation
Mosiah 2 — Benjamin's Tower Sermon — The Humble King, Service as Worship, the Unprofitable Servant, and the Wo of the Open Rebel
Mosiah 3 — The Angel's Message — Jesus Christ Named, Blood from Every Pore, and the Natural Man
Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored
Mosiah 16 — The Light That Cannot Be Darkened — Abinadi's Closing Sermon on Carnal Death, the Light of Endless Life, and the Law That Points Beyond Itself
1 Kings 20 — The God of the Valleys Too — Thirty-two Kings at the Gate, the Boast Proverb, Victory at Aphek, and the Man Ahab Let Walk
2 Kings 23 — The Book That Remade a King — Josiah's Covenant at the Pillar, the Fire Through Every High Place, the Passover No Generation Had Seen, and the Chariot That Came Home from Megiddo
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 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

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