Doctrinal Mastery Review 12

Understand and Apply

This lesson will help you review and practice understanding and applying doctrinal mastery passages you have studied.

Helping learners be active participants. As you prepare to teach, focus on what the learners will do. Encourage students to put forth effort to learn from the scriptures and from one another. As students participate, their confidence in their ability to learn gospel truths will increase. Students will also be more likely to apply what they learn.

Student preparation: Consider inviting students to select two of the doctrinal mastery passages between 1 Nephi and Mosiah and ponder what they could do to understand and apply them.

Possible Learning Activities

A doctrinal mastery passage lesson may need to be taught in place of this review lesson. Refer to the pacing schedule provided by the area or region director or coordinator to ensure that each doctrinal mastery passage lesson will be taught when seminary is in session.

Understanding doctrinal mastery passages

Imagine you have the opportunity to talk with someone who thinks they do not understand the scriptures and is not sure they want to try.

• Why is it important to strive to understand the scriptures?

• If you were to give advice about what someone can do to increase their understanding, what would you say?

Consider writing students’ ideas on the board. Some possible ideas are listed below. Then invite students to select two doctrinal mastery passages and use one of the ideas on the board to help deepen their understanding of the passage.

Some ways to deepen your understanding include

• looking up words you do not understand;

• reading the chapter heading or verses that come before or after the passage you are studying for context;

• reading cross-references in the footnotes;

• looking up important words in the Topical Guide or Guide to the Scriptures;

• asking a parent, teacher, or Church leader for help;

• identifying truths about Jesus Christ; and

• pondering how living by those truths can help you come closer to the Savior.

Display or provide students with a copy of the following chart.

First 12 Doctrinal Mastery Passages and Key Phrases

Book of Mormon Teacher Manual (2024)

Scripture Reference	Key Scripture Phrase
Scripture Reference 1 Nephi 3:7	Key Scripture Phrase “I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded.”
Scripture Reference 2 Nephi 2:25	Key Scripture Phrase “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”
Scripture Reference 2 Nephi 2:27	Key Scripture Phrase “They are free to choose liberty and eternal life … or … captivity and death.”
Scripture Reference 2 Nephi 26:33	Key Scripture Phrase “All are alike unto God.”
Scripture Reference 2 Nephi 28:30	Key Scripture Phrase God “will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept.”
Scripture Reference 2 Nephi 32:3	Key Scripture Phrase “Feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.”
Scripture Reference 2 Nephi 32:8–9	Key Scripture Phrase “Ye must pray always.”
Scripture Reference Mosiah 2:17	Key Scripture Phrase “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.”
Scripture Reference Mosiah 2:41	Key Scripture Phrase “Those that keep the commandments of God … are blessed in all things.”
Scripture Reference Mosiah 3:19	Key Scripture Phrase “[Put] off the natural man and [become] a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.”
Scripture Reference Mosiah 4:9	Key Scripture Phrase “Believe in God; … believe that he has all wisdom.”
Scripture Reference Mosiah 18:8–10	Key Scripture Phrase Be “baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness … that ye have entered into a covenant with him.”

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Applying doctrinal mastery passages

The following activities can help students practice applying the doctrinal mastery passages. You may only want to use one of them, or you could allow students to select which one they do based on their interests or abilities. Have students work together in small groups.

Activity A. Create a scenario

1. On one side of a piece of paper, write a gospel question that could be answered or a circumstance that could be helped using this doctrinal mastery passage.

2. On the other side, write the doctrinal mastery reference, key phrase, and a brief explanation of how it can help.

If this is the only activity students do, they could hand their papers in. Then you could read the scenarios or questions and invite the class to identify truths from doctrinal mastery passages that can help. As an alternative, consider inviting students to walk around the room, sharing with each other the scenarios or questions they wrote and allowing other students to try to think of truths that apply.

Activity B. Make a video outline

Imagine your stake has selected one of the doctrinal mastery key scripture phrases as the theme for youth conference. They have asked you to plan a video to introduce the theme. Create an outline for a video that includes

• the key scripture phrase and reference,

• a creative way to explain what the doctrinal mastery passage means and why it is important to youth, and

• how it might apply to our lives and help us come closer to the Savior. (You could include an example or story from the scriptures, general conference, or your own life.)

If this is the only activity students do, consider inviting various students to share their ideas. If possible, consider having students make the video.

If students can do either activity, invite them to share what they did with the rest of the class.