D&C 128:15 - Scripture Study Tools and Resources

D&C 128:15

15 And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their ^asalvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made ^bperfect.

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a TG Mission of Latter-day Saints

a TG Salvation, Plan of

b Heb. 11:40

40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

b TG Perfection

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Citation ?

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2015
(D&C 128:15-18)

Lawrence E. Corbridge, GC, Apr. 2014
(D&C 128:1-25)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2013
(D&C 128:1-25)

David A. Bednar, GC, Oct. 2011
(D&C 128:15)

Tad R. Callister, GC, Oct. 2009
(D&C 128:5-22)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Oct. 2008
(D&C 128:1-18)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2008
(D&C 128:15)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2006
(D&C 128:15-18)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2005
(D&C 128:15,18)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2004
(D&C 128:15)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Mar. 2001
(D&C 128:15)

D. Todd Christofferson, GC, Oct. 2000
(D&C 128:1-25)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 2000
(D&C 128:15)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Apr. 1998
(D&C 128:15)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Oct. 1995
(D&C 128:15)

Russell M. Nelson, GC, Oct. 1994
(D&C 128:15)

David B. Haight, GC, Apr. 1991
(D&C 128:15)

David B. Haight, GC, Oct. 1990
(D&C 128:15,18)

A. Theodore Tuttle, GC, Apr. 1982
(D&C 128:1-25)

W. Grant Bangerter, GC, Apr. 1982
(D&C 128:8,14-15)

Robert L. Simpson, GC, Apr. 1976
(D&C 128:15)

Eldred G. Smith, GC, Oct. 1975
(D&C 128:15)

Theodore M. Burton, GC, Oct. 1972
(D&C 128:15)

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This Verse	Nearby Verses		This Chapter

dead 30		D&C 127:5-128:22
as 19		D&C 128:11-129:2
heaven 15		D&C 128:7-20
earth 14		D&C 128:7-19
let 11		D&C 128:15-24
perfect 6		D&C 128:15-18
made 6		D&C 128:14-18
without 5		D&C 128:15-18
fathers 4		D&C 128:15-18
living 3		D&C 128:13-15
relation 3		D&C 128:14-16
now 2		D&C 128:15-16
paul 2		D&C 128:15-16

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D&C 128:15-18 (6/4)
2 Ne. 9:13-14 (4/2)
1 Jn. 4:17-18 (3/2)
Alma 32:34-35 (3/2)
Moro. 10:32-33 (3/2)
Job 9:20-22 (3/3)
Moro. 7:15-17 (3/3)
Deut. 25:15 (2/1)
Ps. 101:2 (2/1)
Matt. 5:48 (2/1)
James 1:4 (2/1)
Alma 32:26 (2/1)
3 Ne. 12:48 (2/1)
D&C 76:69 (2/1)
Alma 11:43-44 (2/2)
Moro. 8:16-17 (2/2)