““The scripture is found in 2 Nephi 2:11. Father Lehi says to his son Jacob: ‘For it needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, . . .’ Lehi, however, says that even wickedness could not come to pass, nor misery nor evil, without opposition . . . Notice also that Lehi does not say, “righteousness needs opposition.” Though often understood this way, the passage reads differently. Lehi says that it is necessary that there be an opposition in all things. Without that condition as a given, righteousness could not be brought to pass. Righteousness wouldn't even happen in the first place. Quite a different concept.””
