“Reader, are you sincerely desiring salvation, and do you wish to enter into a most thorough and searching examination of your faith? Are you willing to have your faith compared and measured by the divine oracles? Are you a believer in the word of God? If so, you must be aware that you are commanded in the most emphatic terms, to repent of all your sins. This is the very first act required of a Bible believer. Have you repented sincerely, and humbly, and with all your heart? Have you confessed all your sins unto God with a broken heart and contrite spirit? Have you not only confessed, but forsaken every sin? Have you made a sufficient acknowledgement and satisfaction to those whom you may have in any way injured? Have you covenanted with and promised the Lord that you will sin no more? If you have not repented in this manner and reformed your conduct, then you are not a true believer, your faith is vain, and your hopes are vain, and you are yet in your sins, not having complied with even the very first requisition of faith.” Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith, pg. 86