2 Nephi 1:26-27

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26 And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of the power of the word of God, which was in him; and that which ye call anger was the truth, according to that which is in God, which he could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your iniquities.

27 And it must needs be that the power of God must be with him, even unto his commanding you that ye must obey. But behold, it was not he, but it was the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not shut it.

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It is common among men to confuse the message with the messenger. Those on the Lord’s errand have no right to say anything save that which the Lord directs. Nor is it for mortals to edit God. No teacher of the gospel has the right to add to the commandments or to take from their number or message. We are to give as the Lord directs us to give and withhold as the Lord directs us to withhold. We are to teach with compassion, “reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy” (D&C 121:43).

Millet & McConkie, BOM Commentary, Vol. 1, p. 190