Equity and justice are chief among the laws that rule the kingdom of heaven. Describing the coming of Christ, Alma prophesied, saying: “Not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, equity, and truth, full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering, quick to hear the cries of his people and to answer their prayers” (Alma 9:26).
Among the Lord’s people, equity and justice must always prevail. All who are or who can be called Saints must learn to live in a state of equality one with another. Describing such a state, the Lord spoke to our generation, saying: “In your temporal things you shall be equal, and this not grudgingly, otherwise the abundance of the manifestations of the Spirit shall be withheld” (D&C 70:14, italics added). “For if ye are not equal in earthly things ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things” (D&C 78:6).