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Doctrine and Covenants 22 Enter in at the gate

The revelation came shortly after the Church was formally organized on April 6, 1830. Some people wanted to join without being baptized again, and the revelation addresses whether a baptism in another church was enough for entry into the new Church. Earlier church instructions described baptism but had not directly answered that question. Orson Pratt later recalled that some people from Baptist churches had raised the issue.

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Doctrine and Covenants 22

  1. Behold, I say unto you that all old covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing; and this is a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from the beginning.
  2. Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your dead works.
  3. For it is because of your dead works that I have caused this last covenant and this church to be built up unto me, even as in days of old.
  4. Wherefore, enter ye in at the gate, as I have commanded, and seek not to counsel your God. Amen.

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