39  And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have ^dbitter they could not know the sweet—

  11  For it must needs be, that there is an ^aopposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

  47  Wherefore, they cannot sin, for power is not given unto Satan to tempt little children, until they ^cbegin to become accountable before me;