Mormon concludes the section on judging and makes a transition into his next topic by exhorting his listeners to use this principle to judge correctly. The transition is his encouragement to “lay hold of every good thing,” a task that can be accomplished only by recognizing the good in the “good thing[s].” Mormon has, up to this point, emphasized the importance of choosing the good. Now he focuses on holding on to the good things, making the transition clear by posing the rhetorical question: whether it can be done.