Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Joseph M. Spencer, 2nd Corinthians chapters 8-13.

Joe, a couple of weeks ago we had Dr. Adam Miller come on and talk to us about how we

had the gospel kind of backwards that love is the law, not the reward.

I'm looking at some of these different translations of 2nd Corinthians 12, verse 9, contemporary

English version, my gift of undeserved grace is all you need.

As word translation, my kindness is all you need.

Good news translation, my grace is all you need.

I could keep going.

How do I balance that with Nephi saying in 2nd Nephi, it is by grace that we are saved

after all that we can do, that I need to earn my salvation, that somehow I need to earn

celestial glory.

How would you help our listeners balance that a little bit?

So I think the key to this is that it's not a balance.

We should be completely out of balance in 2nd grace, but let me see if I can explain

what Nephi is up to.

Yeah, I think this is an absolutely essential thing to get clear because it does at first

glance look, like 2nd Nephi 25-23 says, you have to do all you can and then grace kicks

in and saves, right?

Very first thing to notice is that we can only make it say that if we mangle the words

of it.

Say it's by grace that we are saved after we do all we can.

It's we're saved by grace after all we can do.

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