Through meekness and lowliness of heart (being teachable, required to obtain hope, and faith), willingness to proceed without seeing, (v. 43) one also is able to obtain the essential quality for salvation, charity. This enables one to “confess by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ.” Without this celestial quality, Mormon says man is considered as nothing (v. 44). Similar testimony of this concept was previously borne in the Book of Mormon by Nephi. “Behold, the Lord hath forbidden this thing; wherefore, the Lord God hath given a commandment that all men should have charity, which charity is love. And except they should have charity they were nothing. Wherefore, if they should have charity they would not suffer the laborer in Zion to perish” (2 Nephi 26:30). Amulek adds a third testimony:
28 And now behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you, do not suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need—I say unto you, if ye do not any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith.
29 Therefore, if ye do not remember to be charitable, ye are as dross, which the refiners do cast out, (it being of no worth) and is trodden under foot of men. [Alma 34:28–29]
Mormon then gives or quotes a lengthy definition of charity. The attributes are listed below with an interpretive comment.