- Proverbs 3: 12…Punishment done in love
- 2 Nephi 2: 26…All men have freedom to choose except at last day when punishment given
- Mosiah 2: 33…Those that die following the bad spirit receive eternal P.
- Mosiah 12: 1…Those that harden their hearts against God’s word and repent not will be visited by the Lord in His fierce anger
- Mosiah 9: 3…If we’re slow in remembering God we’ll be smitten w/ famine and sore afflictions
- 2 Nephi 9: 25-26…Where there is no law, there is no punishment, thanks to the atonement
- “Guilt always looks for punishment, and punishment creates pain.” .” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
- “We Can Change Our Attitude Toward the Past. The past is over and done. We cannot change that now. Yet we can change our thoughts about the past. How foolish for us to PUNISH OURSELVES in the present moment because someone hurt us in the long-ago past.” .” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 7
- Alma 19: 6-7…6 For the Lord would not suffer, after he had led them out of the land of Jerusalem and kept and preserved them from falling into the hands of their enemies, yea, he would not suffer that the words should not be verified, which he spake unto our fathers, saying that: Inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall not prosper in the land. 7 Wherefore, the Lord did visit them in great judgment; nevertheless, he did spare the righteous that they should not perish but did deliver them out of the hands of their enemies.
- “When I was a child I recognized or thought I did, that the commandments of the Lord were His laws and regulations for my guidance. I thought I recognized in the disobedience to those laws that punishment would follow, and as a child, I presume I may have felt that the Lord had so arranged affairs and so ordained matters in this life that I must obey certain laws or swift retribution would follow. But as I grew older I have learned the lesson from another viewpoint, and now to me the laws of the Lord, so-called, the counsels contained in the Holy Scriptures, the revelations of the Lord to us in this day and age of the world, are but the sweet music of the voice of our Father in heaven in His mercy to us. They are but the advice and counsel of a loving parent, who is more concerned in our welfare than earthly parents can be, and consequently, that which at one time seemed to bear the harsh name of the law to me is now the loving and tender advice of an all-wise Heavenly Father. And so I say it is not hard for me to believe that it is best for me to keep the commandments of God.” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, 2010, Page 6