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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, Sept. 2, 2000

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Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

— 2 Timothy 2:22

"My beloved friends, especially my young friends, can you see why personal purity is such a serious matter?" asked Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve during the October 1998 general conference. ". . . Unless such powers [of procreation] are controlled and commandments kept, your future may be burned; your world could go up in flames. Penalty may not come on the precise day of transgression, but it comes surely and certainly enough."