“For It Is Better That Ye Should Deny Yourselves of These Things Wherein Ye Will Take Up Your Cross”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

This is similar to Alma’s counsel to Corianton: “Now my son, I would that ye should repent and forsake your sins, and go no more after the lusts of your eyes, but cross yourself in all these things; for except ye do this ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. Oh, remember, and take it upon you, and cross yourself in these things.” (Alma 39:9.) The Savior also taught: “And now for a man to take up his cross, is to deny himself all ungodliness, and every worldly lust, and keep my commandments” (JST, Matthew 16:26).

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 4

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