# Doctrine and Covenants 121:41-42 — Love

> No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood


No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile

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