Remembered No More

I command you to repent ... For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; but if they would not repent they must suffer even as I. DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 19:15-17

“The unrepentant are to be sorely punished,” wrote Elder Joseph Fielding Smith. “Our Father in heaven is very merciful, long-suffering and forgiving. He has promised to forgive the repentant sinner. Never has greater love been manifest than that by our Father in sending his Son, and by that Son in coming to the earth, to die for man. But one of the immutable, or eternal laws of God is that the unrepentant sinner must suffer even as Christ suffered ([D&C 19] verses 15-18), for the blood of Christ will not cleanse those who will not repent and in humility accept the free gift which comes from God” (Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:83). The Lord will freely forgive when we repent with godly sorrow and sincere intent, when we not only stop doing that which is wrong but also start doing that which is right. If we repent, the Lord will remember our sins no more (D&C 58:42). (Robert L. Millet and Lloyd D. Newell. Draw Near Unto Me: Daily Reflections on the Doctrine and Covenants. 56)