Mormon 9:5-6

When we stand before the Lord in our filthiness, we will be naked before Him.

“O how great the plan of our God! For on the other hand, the paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the righteous, and the grave deliver up the body of the righteous; and the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all men become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living souls, having a perfect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save it be that our knowledge shall be perfect.

“Wherefore, we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and their righteousness, being clothed with purity, yea, even with the robe of righteousness” (2 Nephi 9:13-14).

At that time, we will know He can see our soul. We can hide nothing from Him. When we feel naked, it will be in the spiritual sense we can hide nothing from Him.

The glory of God will be like a fire to us. We will know the holiness of Christ. “For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding … God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness” (Psalms 47:7-8).

“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness” (Psalms 48:1).

“O how great the holiness of our God! For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything save he knows it” (2 Nephi 9:20).

Moroni calls those who do not believe to turn to the Lord. “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect” (Romans 3:3).

“Therefore he said that he would destroy [the children of Israel], had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

“Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word” (Psalms 106:23-24).

“Even so have these also now not believed [GR obeyed], that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

“For God hath concluded [GR closed up together] them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all” (Romans 11:31-32).

Pray to the Father in Christ’s name. If they do this, they may, perphaps, be found spotless before the Lord. They will have been cleansed by His blood. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).

“And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

“And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith” (Acts 15:8-9).

“I say unto you, ye will know at that day that ye cannot be saved; for there can no man be saved except his garments are washed white; yea, his garments must be purified until they are cleansed from all stain, through the blood of him of whom it has been spoken by our fathers, who should come to redeem his people from their sins” (Alma 5:31).

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation [GR erroneous, fruitless conduct] received by tradition from your fathers;

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Peter 1:18-19).

“Both [Jacob and Moroni] testify that because of Christ all men will be resurrected and ‘then cometh the judgment.’ Just prior to this passage, Jacob says, ‘we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness’ (2 Nephi 9:14). Similarly, Moroni states that we ‘shall be brought to see [our] nakedness before God’ (Mormon 9:5). Both Jacob and Moroni teach that the judgment will be a restoration of what we already are. By employing Jacob’s vivid phraseology, Moroni adds a second witness to his own and shifts Jacob’s testimony forward in time, reiterating its relevance to modern readers. Jacob spoke to a hardened people; it may be that Moroni saw in his latter-day readers those who similarly struggled and thus employed Jacob’s words in reaching out to them.”[1]

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[1] Jacob’s Textual Legacy, John Hilton III, Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22/2 (2013): 60.