Footnotes
See Isaiah 29:21.
In 1839 JS wrote an epistle to the Latter-day Saints in which he taught that “[No power or in]f[luence] can or ought to be maintained by [vi]rt[ue] of the Priesthood only by persuasion by long suffering by gentleness and meekness and by love unfaigned by kindness by pure knowledge which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy and without guile.” (Letter to Edward Partridge and the Church, ca. 22 Mar. 1839 [D&C 121:41–42].)
See Matthew 3:1–3, 10; Mark 1:2–3; Luke 3:4, 9; and John 1:23.