D&C 82:6-10
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Questions
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Verse 7
- Compare this verse to James 2:10. How would you explain this teaching to your children? To an investigator?
Verse 10
- How does this verse figure into the law of consecration?
Lexical notes
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Verse 10
- In the Doctrine and Covenants, the word "bound" has at least two uses: as a synonym of "sealed," joined by covenant; and as a description of what happens to Satan at the end, as a synonym of "tied up." In this section, binding is mentioned three times, in this verse, in verse 11 and in verse 15. In the second two cases, it clearly means "sealed by covenant." It seems reasonable to assume that's what it means here too, especially given the explicit connection of "bound" and "promise" in this verse.
Exegesis
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Verse 10
- We sometimes hear people using this verse to discuss "binding God," in other words, putting ourselves in a position where we force him to do what we want, but that seems fairly clearly to be a misunderstanding of the verse. The point is that he binds himself to us by covenant when we obey him, not that when we obey him we have power over him.
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