Scripture Study Made Simple by Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

Author:Kathryn Jenkins Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2016-10-27T00:29:47+00:00

Section 83

This revelation was given to Joseph Smith on April 30, 1832, while he sat in counsel with others in Independence, Missouri. The Prophet had traveled to Jackson County, Missouri, to help the elders there institute the law of consecration and the associated stewardships and to coordinate the printing activities of the Literary Firm.

The revelation spelled out the law of the Church regarding widows, orphans, and children. Support for those who are faithful members of the Church, said President Spencer W. Kimball, should come first from self, then from family, and then from the Church (see Conference Report, October 1977, 124).

In his October 1978 general conference address, President Kimball clarified that wives have claim upon their husbands when he said, “Peter urged us to give honor unto our wives. . . . Paul said that a man who did not provide for his own and those of his own household was ‘worse than an infidel.’ . . . The Lord told us in this dispensation that ‘women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance’ (D&C 83:2). I like to think of maintenance as including our obligation to maintain loving affection and to provide consideration and thoughtfulness as well as food.”

1. Verily, thus saith the Lord, in addition to the laws of the church concerning women and children, those who belong to the church, who have lost their husbands or fathers:

2. Women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance, until their husbands are taken; and if they are not found transgressors they shall have fellowship in the church.

3. And if they are not faithful they shall not have fellowship in the church; yet they may remain upon their inheritances according to the laws of the land.

Inheritances refers to the law of consecration.

4. All children have claim upon their parents for their maintenance until they are of age.

5. And after that they have claim upon the church, or in other words upon the Lord’s storehouse, if their parents have not wherewith to give them inheritances.

6. And the storehouse shall be kept by the consecrations of the church; and widows and orphans shall be provided for, as also the poor. Amen.

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