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The great prophet, Isaiah, declared: “We are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags.” And Daniel prayed: “We do not present our
supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.” In
recognition of these basic deficiencies and distortions in human life in the earth’s fallen
mortal state, Jesus admonished his disciples in Palestine and on the Western
hemisphere: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.” And in his
ministry to the Nephites, Christ quoted Isaiah’s statement of faithful saints in the latter-
day Zion: “Their righteousness is of me.” One charge the Lord made against many
modern Christians is that “they seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every
man walketh in his own way, after the image of his own God, whose image is in the
likeness of the world.”