“The Tree… and the Roots Thereof Profit Me Nothing”
Lineage is almost insignificant when righteousness is absent. Of what value to be of a noble family when one is not noble? “For they are not all Israel,” Paul warned, “which are of Israel” (Romans 9:6). Israel cannot be a light to the world (see Isaiah 49:6; D&C 86:11) while she herself stands in the darkness.
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