See also Adversity; Probation

Gen. 2: 9	(Moses 3: 9; Abr. 5: 9) tree of life . . . and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Gen. 3: 18	(Moses 4: 24) Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth.
Matt. 5: 44	Love your enemies, bless them that curse you.
Rom. 7: 19	(3 Ne. 12: 44) good that I would I do not: but the evil.
Rom. 8: 7	carnal mind is enmity against God.
Eph. 6: 12	we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but . . . against the rulers of the darkness of this world.
2 Thes. 2: 4	Who opposeth and exalteth himself.
1 Tim. 6: 20	avoiding . . . oppositions of science falsely so called.
2 Tim. 3: 8	these also resist the truth.
James 1: 3	trying of your faith worketh patience.
James 4: 4	friendship of the world is enmity with God.
1 Pet. 1: 7	trial of your faith.
2 Ne. 2: 11	must needs be . . . an opposition in all things.
2 Ne. 2: 15	forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life.
2 Ne. 2: 27	free to choose liberty and eternal life.
Alma 42: 16	Punishment . . . affixed opposite to the plan of happiness.
Ether 12: 6	receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
D&C 29: 39	devil should tempt . . . men, or they could not be agents.
D&C 58: 4	after much tribulation come the blessings.
D&C 122: 7	these things shall give thee experience.
D&C 136: 31	My people must be tried in all things.
Moses 6: 55	taste the bitter, that they may know to prize.

See also Acts 26: 14.